HN is great for when there exists discussion, can be very deep and well thought out. However, community is very intent on not devolving into endless pointless meme posts which can be a bit stifling and overreacting.
It seems that way at first, but for years hackernews have used steganographic techniques to hide memes encoded into comments for years, just gotta know what to look for.
Guess you can’t have a cake and eat it too.