Remember that HN is a blatant ripoff of Reddit and was created because the founders of Reddit wouldn't give pg his own installation (this was before it was OSS)

Remember that HN is a blatant ripoff of Reddit and was created because the founders of Reddit wouldn't give pg his own installation (this was before it was OSS). Even Reddit was a "rip off" of Slashdot. Just because it's a social news aggregater does not make it a rip off of hacker news.