> Hacker News is a critical resource for young male techies based in Silicon Valley (Disclosure: I am a young male techie based in Silicon Valley), this has the

> Hacker News is a critical resource for young male techies based in Silicon Valley (Disclosure: I am a young male techie based in Silicon Valley), this has the consequence of excluding female hackers. This is a non sequitur. Anybody of any sex can enter the url into their address bar. Males liking a thing does not preclude females from also liking that same thing. Perhaps the author is trying to build a premise for his analysis, but given the mostly pseudonymous nature of HN, it's a silly one.