It’s helpful to remember when reading these comments how overwhelmingly male the user base of HN is. Obviously whoever made this didn’t intend for it to replac

It’s helpful to remember when reading these comments how overwhelmingly male the user base of HN is. Obviously whoever made this didn’t intend for it to replace a reference to “manual.” This is a silly bug. But the idea behind the project is not silly. Defaulting to male pronouns and references happens all the time in our industry, and it has an impact. And using gender-neutral language costs nothing.