Let me try and take a stab at it. Hacker News is the most visible organ of one Y Combinator, a technology startup accelerator in Silicon Valley. As an accelera

Let me try and take a stab at it. Hacker News is the most visible organ of one Y Combinator, a technology startup accelerator in Silicon Valley. As an accelerator, YC wants as many opportunities as possible to invest in great companies. For that reason, they probably do not want to be associated with the insensitivity and occasionally villainous misogyny that has dominated so many of these conversations. Limits their deal flow from everyone who isn't a dude. Just a hunch.