You are making judgement calls on people's personalities based on not very much. HN is a public website, the discussions can be good and genuine and we can all

You are making judgement calls on people's personalities based on not very much. HN is a public website, the discussions can be good and genuine and we can all be the same narcissistic psychopaths that are only here to accumulate HN karma that for some reason we value higher than money. Or we can all be dogs, it's the internet and you have no idea. I'd start taking online communities with a bigger grain of salt.