Plenty of comments here seem positive towards Dyson. Others are negative but explain their reasons. These kinds of curmudgeonly sneers/swipes at the HN communi

Plenty of comments here seem positive towards Dyson. Others are negative but explain their reasons. These kinds of curmudgeonly sneers/swipes at the HN community are so lame. They're easy to make and will attract upvotes and agreement from people who want the stereotype to be true. But they're futile to try and refute because people will always put more weight on the evidence that supports a belief like this than that which opposes it. The ultimate effect is wasted energy, and making HN threads depressing, which is interesting when the commenter is purportedly concerned about excessive negativity in this community. Comments like this are clearly in breach of the guidelines, for good reason: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html