Comment by whyowhy3484939
5 months ago
The heavy, thick irony of these people running their own platform on as little technology as possible and depending heavily on human input.
It's like they know somewhere deep inside that "mo tech" is not helping anyone.
There's a less cynical interpretation of that which is not so far from the case.
There's a few levels going on here:
- technologists and startup wannabes feeling like HN is "underground" because of the stripped down aesthetic and weird tech stack
- out of touch VCs who are successful because of money and connections but want to cosplay as technical
- the end users of the startups, who are fed the enshittified products funded by the VCs and created by the technologists
It's not ironic whatsoever.