[Smerity]

The part of this article I really associated with is the focus on "startup drama". The startup drama has its place -- stories of founders fighting through the hard time or working out when to throw in the towel are wonderfully didactic in nature whilst getting across the human story. It's why Founders at Work is one of my favourite books.

Most tech blogs however have distorted these startup dramas to the point they look like poorly scripted television shows. They've discovered, just as gossip magazines did, that more drama => more eyeballs => more revenue. Very few sources I have come across prioritize information over hype and it feels like the tech community is paying for it.

What I disagree with in the article though is the focus only on wanting to hear of tech startups. I asked an entrepreneur on advice about Natural Language Processing startups (of which he'd founded a few). He said "To bake banana bread you need to be able to bake bread". Tech startups, as different as they are to normal businesses and startups in other fields, share a great deal as well. We'd do well learning from their trials and follies too and hence why HN is so open to articles from all over the map.