A couple of weeks ago, there was a great blogpost Is Show HN Dead? No, But It’s Drowning . And now we see HN’s top moderator is discussing throttling Show HN somehow, responding in a thread with 600+ upvotes entitled Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting.
I am working on a broader think piece on this that I plan to publish in a week or so (and have already blogged about increasing App Review times), but this thread deserved to be noted now.