Holdonasec - I can list roughly (looking through my bookmarks and counting) - about 20sh different forum type sites with discussion (reddit, anand, verge, slashdot, ars, strachery, etc...) - None of them I like as much as HN. Why would trying to find a site that is better (given the OP didn't like HN) make me sound like a Bot?

And if the answer was, "Well, there is nothing better than HN" - kind of makes me wonder what his original point actually was.