[rvz]

> Why even go to a site like HN if your goal is purely to make money?

Yet this site seems to be hosted by a company whose goal is purely about making money by investing in companies they find which are likely to give huge returns. i.e A VC fund.

So rewriting it in Rust for the sake of Rust is irrelevant to them and doesn't give any advantage whatsoever and won't get their attention.

[krapp]

Yes. Many wannabe entrepreneurs come here hoping to gain "street cred" and get their "insightful" comments and projects noticed by YC, hoping to parlay that into funding or hoping a launch on HN will do for them what it did for others (like Dropbox.) Believe it or not Hacker News is serious business, there's a reason the staff is so guarded about releasing any code or hints about their algorithm that could be gamed.