If this is HN's opinion on onions, I now know how React got so undeservedly popular.
That was a publicity campaign by Facebook. It never would have grown organically from the open source community because it solves a problem only a handful of companies on the planet have - to offload processing power to the client.
Oh man, I don't think I have laughed as much at an HN comment in a long time :D
big respect friend :)
Tor, the onion router, perfect combination of spicy and sweet, as long as the TCP/IP packets are raw.