That's hibernation though, so it takes way longer to wake up and also does a lot of I/O on the probably not replaceable SSD.

(Also, why does your post show as being made on the 2021-10-14 when this "Ask HN" is from today? Wat)

Anecdata but my 5-year ThinkPad and 3-year Dell are doing fine (also a 10-year Asus). I've been always hibernating for the night. 16GB RAM, takes at most few seconds. I don't get this allergy to hibernation, is it such a killer to wait a few seconds when I know I won't be using device for hours/days?

Takes seconds to resume and saves a lot of battery since the machine is truly powered off.

Sometimes posts get put on the "try again" queue by the moderator, where they are floated to the bottom of the home page to see if they will attract attention the second go-around. I don't know if that's the case here.

Ah indeed, the Ask HN itself is from the 14th and various comments are from then as well. Seems like it got put through that process which causes HN to "fake" the short timestamps to make everything look like fresh discussion.