> If one spends a lot of time on Hacker News, or other startup-oriented news sites, they might believe that everyone is working on their next multi-million-doll

> If one spends a lot of time on Hacker News, or other startup-oriented news sites, they might believe that everyone is working on their next multi-million-dollar startup and/or exit strategy. It may be hard to imagine that people work on open source code purely for the fun of it. There’s no contrast here. HN is my primary source of FOMO for programmers having more fun than me. No, really. Bros just made a “be more like HN” manifesto.