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> I mean, maybe they'd have defended him no matter what side of the coin he was on, given that he's a pretty central member of the HN "tribe" Are you sure it's

by pen2l 11y ago

> I mean, maybe they'd have defended him no matter what side of the coin he was on, given that he's a pretty central member of the HN "tribe" Are you sure it's HN tribal thinking that resulted in the vehement defense of patio11? Because I have a different theory: I think a slightly different crowd is now the majority (most entrepreneurial, more money-oriented) from the old more hacker-oriented crowd at HN.

derefr 11y ago
That's definitely a false "fall from grace" narrative. Hacker News was previously Startup News. There might be a few more SEO-types here than before, but the business and technology mix has always been pretty equal. (Unsurprisingly, it's about the same mix you'd expect from the cofounders of YC startups!)