Indeed. HN is an echo chamber like most things of its ilk. It's just like the Emmy (etc.) awards; actors praising actors for acting; the rest of the world is

Indeed. HN is an echo chamber like most things of its ilk. It's just like the Emmy (etc.) awards; actors praising actors for acting; the rest of the world is largely orthogonal. The amount of pretense and smug here isn't any less about its domain than any other self-selected community.