Strong disagree.

Posts like mine, here, often kick off an avalanche of HN hate, but there is no site on the internet that is more full of high-signal commentary, where I reliably learn as much, as HN. It's not close. I can't remember what it was like ten years ago, but it's been great for the last bunch of years and it's still great.

They have a weird blind spot about btc, sure. But the overall excellence is why I throw myself into their btc-blindness over and over to see if there's something I'm missing. I really don't think there is, but, as Feynman said, I'm the easiest person to fool.