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I've noticed that same increase in Reddit-style one-liner jokes and references here too. Not enough to become a problem yet, but just enough to worry about setting precedent for more. One good one-liner in a thread can be alright, but it tends to attract a train of similar low-content responses.

I hadn't connected that to a pandemic-induced demand increase, but that could well be true.

As for submissions (rather than comments), it does feel like HN has shifted more towards broader industry and politics news, rather than just tech and programming. I'm okay with this, in fact HN has displaced Reddit for me thanks to the much higher standard of discourse, although I do worry a bit about marginalizing the crunchy tech content for those who come here for that.

>>viking+(OP)
> I've noticed that same increase in Reddit-style one-liner jokes and references here too.

I think the guidelines might be right, in that this hasn't really seemed to change in the ~10 years I've been here.