Anyone on Hacker News, has not "stopped reading the news".
Maybe they stopped looking at the FOX news website? Or maybe they stopped looking at the CNN website? Or what have you. But they consume a lot of news every day. The reality is that a very large percentage of the front page of HN is political type stuff:
"US Workers Are Highly Taxed If You Count Premiums"
Or stuff intended to trigger discussions of political type stuff:
"Big Tech Helps China Censor People"
etc, etc etc.
There is a lot of negative, outrage focused, news on HN.
Not the OP and I haven't stopped reading the news entirely, but actually on HN, I do not usually read the articles (horror!). I especially don't read articles from the major news outlets. I come to HN for the comments and links to blog posts about programming.
And, no, I did not read TFA ;-). I was just curious if anyone had comments on finding slower, better news.
True. Hacker news is the only news I read. Because it mostly filters out the stuff I don’t care about.
Pretty much every “traditional news” headline basically says to me:
“This horrible thing happened somewhere that has no bearing on your life!”
