drclau parent
That's how you get conversations, and eventually progress. To me, that's the attraction of public forums like HN: people (including myself) make assumptions, and conversation often (or sometimes?) leads to corrections. If we'd all be working with perfectly correct assumptions, we would not need forums anymore. We'd just be fed information, process it in exactly the same way and reach the exact same conclusions. In my experience, this is not really possible with humans.
What it primary does instead is to disseminate feel good assumptions. Because the people don't state them as assumptions, they claim them to be facts. The conversation does not lead to corrections often enough in programming and business unrelated topics.
That is fairly normal, group of people talking about something they dont know much about is not supposed to randomly pivot to correct conclusions. But, HN is uniquely convinced HN is superior in this regard.
I take it you are also uniquely convinced that you are superior in this regard, then. :)
But here's an honest question: why are you on HN, then? Sure, it's a decent source of tech&related news. But there's no reason for you to spend time reading and writing comments, if you truly believe it's as bad as you say.
It is light tech adjacent news with a taste of drama and arguing, but not too much drama. Because I wait for tests to run and want to idle kill time. Cause I am procastinating.
I use it same way as reddit, basically. Except this don't sends notifications so it is less pushy.