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The people that run HN are so hostile they launched the bloody thing:

Commenters on HN are not the same thing as companies launched through ycombinator.

That is the point. Run HN and run YC are the same. HN and YC are different.

Where do you think those founders come from?

One of the application questions for YC used to be (maybe still is) 'What is your HN username?'