As a life long libertarian and many many years reading HN, HN is in no way a libertarian community, If you believe HN is libertarian you would be in for an ex

As a life long libertarian and many many years reading HN, HN is in no way a libertarian community, If you believe HN is libertarian you would be in for an extreme shock if you encountered a real libertarian community Nor is Silicon Valley anywhere CLOSE to libertarianism, Silicon Valley is extreme left Authoritarian While HN does love markets (though nor really free markets) most of HN is Socially Authoritarian left