The day Hacker News died

I read this post yesterday - https://news.ycombinator.com/x?fnid=XHl5eHPpZR2yJW0wg7tGWe

Pretty much full of critical comments, unnecssary negative put downs but what is even more staggering is if you read that entire thread is the unbelievable lack of a)common sense displayed by so many and b)the need for people to nit pick every comment and tear it apart.

A good example of this is where a user is threatening the OP (who created a useful site) by saying Apple are going to come after him and potentially take legal action. A whole new conversation is then born re this 'impending legal action'.

HN used to be a great place to get constructive criticism re your project. Now it's a place for people to show off and showboat about how much they think they know. It's sad and what's worse is there is no easy solution.