I've been coding for 35 years. I love HackerNews. Because it works. And it's all we need. But holding it up as some example of engineering would be silly. It's just a tree editor. I implemented a better tree editor myself today from scratch.

If you want to know what stuff I'm impressed by it's things like Mastodon, Nostr apps, and stuff that does more than edit a simple content tree of nothing but plain text. We can't even upload images. Can't do markdown. lol. It's definitely a "Less is More" app, from two decades ago. Just agree to agree with me on that. It's not an insult to them. It's just an observation.