When I think of a "most HN" comment, I think of one of four options:

- Dismisses a new project that simplifies a task and makes it more approachable to non-technical folks (Like the famous Dropbox comment [0])

- Is extremely pedantic and serves only as a distraction from a discussion

- Argues in favor of pure functional programming

- Misses obvious sarcasm, even when the /s is included.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

Those are all negative. Lots of HN comments are positive.

Can you think of any other community where someone can discuss the damage of a CRT monitor falling into your face with terms like "scale linearly" and everybody just nods in agreement?

I think it's delightful, one of the little pleasures of hanging around here.

The functional programming one could probably be generalized to "argues for switching to a programming language or programming paradigm when it doesn't even make sense for the particular context or HN thread topic".

There's always someone that's religious about their particular technical choices.

And lately:

* dismisses the thought by referring to the commenter's privilege for having it in the first place, rather than commenting on the value or feasibility of the thought itself.

You forgot "find a wordy way to criticize something while pretending you're suggesting an improvement so that you can pander to some viewpoint that it's hard to argue against with the demographics here being what they are"

please add

- tries to come up with an overly precise technical definition of something entirely subjective and unserious.

;-)

pure functional programming is so 2010. rewrite it in Rust is the 2020 way.

This may be today's "Most HN" reply...