You've provided enough details that one of your cofounders or investors could certainly recognize themselves in your posting. How do you think they would react

You've provided enough details that one of your cofounders or investors could certainly recognize themselves in your posting. How do you think they would react to this? How would you react if your CEO posted something along the lines of """How do I deal with a technical cofounder who refuses to do his job? We're in a critical period, our site goes down more often than twitter and my partner and I are out there everyday making sales but the guy we brought on board to build the site doesn't seem to understand how critical it is; he doesn't even want to shell out for internet so he can fix the site when it goes down out of hours.""" I'm guessing you would not be pleased to be pilloried like that , even anonymously. It would have been one thing if you'd turned to a mentor for advice, but by putting it up on HN you have created a situation that will turn what is already a tense situation with your cofounders into open war should it be discovered. And really, my sympathy is limited. If your site is crashing or failing regularly, then you should be fixing that instead of hanging out on HN looking for validation of your hurt feelings.