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Dang didn't engage with my argument at all. He threw up a smoke screen and claimed they're not journalists (they just happen to have called the site Hacker News , but it's not real…

> You're misinterpreting the word "news" in the name to mean the same thing as journalism / news reporting That's laughable, you don't get to redefine "news". It's right there in t…

The site is literally called Hacker News . The conflict of interest of a venture capital firm running a "news" site is not even a grey area of ethical violations. It's clearly prob…

> To be clear, it would be bad if HN had to split off from YC - bad for HN, bad for YC, bad for the community here. To be clear, it would be extremely good for the community if YC …