[gnatxc]

HN isn't nearly as bad as some "open" source projects, whose code and infrastructure has been completely taken over by seriously under-performing but power-hungry Microsoft, Google and Facebook employees (Amazon and Apple are less prominent here).

You can still say many things here that can't be said practically anywhere else on the Internet.

Sadly, like "open" source developers, startups are quite afraid of MAGAF as well, so they no longer talk as freely as they did 5 years ago.