What I find scarier (or more interesting) is that if all I read were Hacker News, I would have a list that would be exactly the same as the author's. Perhaps a

What I find scarier (or more interesting) is that if all I read were Hacker News, I would have a list that would be exactly the same as the author's. Perhaps a better question would be what do all these people have in common, other than being successful, accomplished males with reputations for being irreverent?