I come to news.yc to read about hacking, business, and related topics.

I came to Digg to read about technology, and reddit to read about, well progressive things from a variety of areas.

The decline of reddit and digg was marked by many front page posts concerning reddit or digg themselves. I hope the decline of news.yc is not marked by many front page posts concerning news.yc itself.

I don't visit news.yc because I'm interested in news.yc - I'm interested, oddly enough, in Hacker news (with a business bent).

Then again, I fear that may have already happened - a post on news.yc on an article about 'hackers', that criticized the Morris worm was modded into oblivion for no other reason than Robert Morris later went on to found yc - though Robert himself has publicly expressed remorse for releasing said worm.

It seems news.yc is suffering from the cult of personality.

We're at #3 - religious veneration. We don't really have #2 yet (vilification of outside enemies), though we could get that pretty yet. I haven't seen much #1 (sex talk) yet, thoug Alex's comment of "My iPhone has replaced my penis as the default thing I reach for when I'm bored" might flirt with that.