Don't agree at all. This is about Open-Source developer culture, which I think is reasonably close to the HN mandate. If 50% of the human race feels actively

Don't agree at all. This is about Open-Source developer culture, which I think is reasonably close to the HN mandate. If 50% of the human race feels actively unsafe being near or working with prominent OS developers, that has a huge impact - on female developers, on the perception of Open Source as a whole, on the talent pool available to work on OS projects. (Let's face it, the "legitimate rape" scandal hasn't done the GOP's public image a lot of good - do Linux users really want to be tarred with the same brush?) Now, all of that's only a problem if the arguments made in the article hold up - but that's a matter for debate in comments. No-one's ever said that an article featured on HN had to be completely uncontroversial or universally agreed-with. The subject matter, developer culture, is definitely relevant to HN.