Also you made an important point which I think has been completely overlooked by many here. HackerNews no longer has the regular presence of those involved in Y

Also you made an important point which I think has been completely overlooked by many here. HackerNews no longer has the regular presence of those involved in YC, because there's now BookFace which looks to have came about around 2015. > "And so I realize that YC founders now have their own community, separate from HN, and the electrifying experience of the early days of Startup News is no longer present." Which is called out in the article > "My first line of defense when encountering a problem is Bookface , a private forum for Y Combinator alumni."