I don't know if it is the cynicism of aging or the zeitgeist but essentially every single news item I see on or off HN is either fake, misinterpreted, mispresented, unimportant, irrelavant or uninteresting. Look at the front page of HN on any given time in recent years. 50% are about unmonetizable, over hyped AI, 30% are some kind of nostalgic retrocomputing or enthusiast project. Maybe 1-5% are actually ideas that could drive economic growth. Hypothesis: the seeking of moats and extractive niches rather than competitive fitness killed innovation in tech, together with mature physics.