I need to stop using the metric of "if a hacker news post has a lot of comments, then the article is worth a read" and instead read the comments first.

Lately, there have many controversial articles (with a lot of comments) that are most likely written by AI and I regret wasting my time on. Sigh, is there a hacker news replacement with higher quality articles that I don't know about? I imagine all platforms are inundated with slop now.

Me too. I ended up reading the article first and then comments. It's definitely AI slop, can I have my ten minutes back.

This is fantastic. Thanks for sharing this.

> If somehow you were still using legacy ASP.NET / Framework 4.8 etc, you have much bigger problems - legacy ASP.NET has been unsupported since 2022 so will definitely not be receiving security updates.

I don't think this is correct:

.NET 4.8 / 4.8.1 shows does not have an end of support date set: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/platform/support/policy/d...

Also ASP.NET MVC 5 does not have an end of support date set: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/platform/support/policy/a...

There are plenty of apps out there were there is no feasible upgrade path to .NET Core / .NET 9, so I imagine MS will continue to support these for a very long time. Note that the VB6 runtime is still supported in all Windows operating systems: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/visualst...

Yes, you're right, the last sentence is definitely a mistake on my part, I should have written less! Thanks for the links, paulirwin's sibling response is helpful too.

We had code using WCF and AppDomains that were always out of scope for .NET Core. WCF has a Core replacement now that is not quite one-for-one but AppDomains will never be supported in .NET Core / .NET 5.0+ and would indeed have to stay on 4.8 / 4.8.1 if they were still running.