So basically, I can pick up hitchhikers and then ditch them 20 miles away from civilization at 03:00AM. I provided the service for free, after all. They have no reason to complain.
Yeah, you can do that if you want. That's (one of) the reason hitchhiking is considered "unsafe" and strongly discouraged to most peoples daughters.
The OP demonstrating quite a bit of hubris assuming HN is broken just because they aren't getting their email - there's quite likely a very easy way for HN (is pg doing all this himself?) to see many many password reset emails going out every day and successful logins from those accounts shortly after. If _I_ were seeing that at my end, and still having someone insist my end's "broken", I'd hover between assuming they're either not competent enough to be worth spending (free service) customer service time on, or they're trying to social engineer access to someone elses's account. And I'd politely brush them off - just as HN did…
The OP demonstrating quite a bit of hubris assuming HN is broken just because they aren't getting their email - there's quite likely a very easy way for HN (is pg doing all this himself?) to see many many password reset emails going out every day and successful logins from those accounts shortly after. If _I_ were seeing that at my end, and still having someone insist my end's "broken", I'd hover between assuming they're either not competent enough to be worth spending (free service) customer service time on, or they're trying to social engineer access to someone elses's account. And I'd politely brush them off - just as HN did…