I am not sure how often a person blog posts are posted on HN but I find it fairly common. HN do not follow the same rules as Wikipedia when it comes to judge wh

I am not sure how often a person blog posts are posted on HN but I find it fairly common. HN do not follow the same rules as Wikipedia when it comes to judge whose opinion is worthy to be considered, neither requiring expert recognizing in the topic or third-party sources. It simply a question if enough people find the topic interesting within the time frame that a article has to be pushed to the front page. On the topic itself, I find from experience that people tend to default a pronoun as to themselves when they don't know the gender of a person and there is no other social clues. I prefer to not attribute malice to that which has a equal likely natural reason, and defaulting to oneself is a rather good explanation for why groups with mostly single-gender tend to use a pronounce of that gender. For that I agree that fewer pronouns, "they", and "person" is more clearer and honest than defaulting when one do not know the gender.