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Can’t upvote this enough. HN has turned to shambles over the years as people here are way more concerned with “getting out” than they are with building companies. It’s not surprising the place is a cesspool of jealousy whenever someone succeeds.

I’ve called them out on this shit years ago. It still hasn’t changed.

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This seems like a case of randomness plus sample bias equals overgeneralization. In case of indignation, multiply by 10x.

Separately: Could you please stop creating accounts for every few comments you post? We ban accounts that do that. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

You needn't use your real name, of course, but for HN to be a community, users need some identity for other users to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be a different kind of forum. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

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