Gosh, I remember reading those stories on progreddit that day. I was beginning to wonder if I had just imagined the decline in quality or if instead my tastes had just changed considerably.

All the haskell, lisp, FP, compsci stories are gone, the comments are complete drivel. I rarely see a story that is worth reading (and I read reddit compulsively several times a day). I think a lot of the blame can be placed on including progreddit on the main page when the subreddits were introduced. Suddenly there were a lot of non-programmers on progreddit.

To the OP, yes I would like to see a hacker version of hackernews.

Ah, that's not surprising. Thanks.

agreed, although it seems to have not deteriorated to the same degree and the main Reddit