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You are right. But the real world is a messy place. Good people do bad things and vice versa. Not many people are entirely good or entirely bad. HN is a very s
by chairmansteve 9mo ago
You are right. But the real world is a messy place. Good people do bad things and vice versa. Not many people are entirely good or entirely bad.
HN is a very strong net positive IMO. YC could easily monetize it into oblivion. They don't.
- bigDinosaur 9mo agoMy understanding is that HN is monetized e.g. marketing is explicitly permitted by founders etc. I guess that's not conventional monetisation.
- auggierose 9mo agoThey arguably do. Just look at the valuation of YC. They are just being smart about it.
- guru4consulting 9mo agoThey do not monetize but may do probably something worse, infotize or narratize (just invented words). By using an almost neutral, altruistic platform to subtly control/constrain the narratives on certain tech overlords. As much as I love HN, I do not agree with their reasoning to flag some of the posts that are negative to the tech elites.