[mehwoot]

I think at least part of it is because the people on HN enjoy solving problems so much.

Or we're all cynical assholes. Just possibly.

[Thimothy]

I'd rather "Idealistic Perfectionist", thank you.

[asdkl234890]

I think it's because we are pedantic. In a pedantic way no more world hunger, but people still die in car crashes, is correct. Pedantically correct.

[lallysingh]

Well, which comment would you upvote?

1) Yay! 2) Here's where they could have done more...

[doktrin]

Or overly pedantic alpha nerds, the lot of us.

[Terr_]

"Por qué no los dos!?"

[innguest]

> Or we're all cynical assholes. Just possibly.

Unlikely. HNers are wide-eyed Utopians in the Platonic fashion of believing in virtue through central planning. There is no cynicism here to be found, but in the downvoted comments.

[slowmovintarget]

Not a fan of centralized control... I much prefer distributed, concurrent, fault-tolerant, scalable systems. You'd think most HN readership would too.