For me, at least, it is a helpful reminder that HN is disproportionately enamored with the bleeding edge, and that at any given time around a thousand people are exploring Java for every one person exploring React.
(Put another way: hype, even valid hype, can fall victim to an echo chamber.)
Right. My point is more that the relative importance of using 'state of the art' technologies is overhyped on sites like HN, and that its role in the overall zeitgeist of computing is not as large as HN would have you believe.
(Put another way: hype, even valid hype, can fall victim to an echo chamber.)