It's been this way for years. HNers have a particularly egregious sense of entitlement around software, which is ironic because writing software pays their own

It's been this way for years. HNers have a particularly egregious sense of entitlement around software, which is ironic because writing software pays their own bills. Perhaps a larger proportion of them nowadays are writing services that advertisers, rather than customers, are paying for, and so they don't see the cognitive dissonance.