[dudeman13]

>But one conclusion I have from this thread is that Hacker News has lots its way, and that Hackers are not really welcome here anymore

I think you are conflating hackers with lack of empathy/being a dick.

I mean, "is a hacker" DOES seem like a good predictor for "is a dick" (in my experience at least), so you might be right that HN isn't all that fond of hackers nowadays.

[jacquesm]

> I mean, "is a hacker" DOES seem like a good predictor for "is a dick" (in my experience at least)

I'm sad that this is the case for you. But to counter your anecdata, the hackers that I know are as a rule quite nice and well behaved.

[jsnell]

Agreed, you should totally tell jacquesm that. He seems to think that it's par for the course for hackers to bully total strangers on the pretext of "showing up a suit". He even seems to think that HN has lost its way and is no longer inhabited by hackers, when it's pointed out what bad manners and lack of empathy such a prank would be.

[jacquesm]

Ok, you win.

[lupire]

The pervasive theme of this thread was that "hacking was more more fun in the 80s/90s when we were allowed to be bullies"