This article sounds a lot like a couple of Paul Graham's essays. Come to think of it, a lot of stuff that shows up on HN sounds like Paul Graham. For instance,

This article sounds a lot like a couple of Paul Graham's essays. Come to think of it, a lot of stuff that shows up on HN sounds like Paul Graham. For instance, repeating how important it is to work on "hard problems," pretentious blather about "hackers" and master programmers... Do you suppose that they are emulating Paul Graham, or is there a cult of people that think alike, and PG is one of them...? For the record -- if PG is reading -- I enjoyed your essays on the first reading, but seeing the exact same ideas keep repeating in posts is kind of weird...