HN is "professional" 4Chan. If you ever spent any time on both sites it's obvious that there's a ton of overlap in the userbase. The only difference is moderation.

So going there for anything but focused technology discussions is a bad time. Now that that era is dead, there's no reason to visit unless you want a safe space where you can be a discrete racist/bigot and/or a flamboyant billionaire bootlicker.

I wish I could see it as just sad. Instead, it's like somebody is constantly trying to murder me slowly, and the fact that they haven't actually managed it yet doesn't make the experience any less terrifying.