[kimdouglasmason]

Rah Rah Rah! If your startup is not winning, just pivot, and be positive enough, and you will inevitably win. Selection bias doesn't exist and was made up by negative Nancys.

Seriously though, stick a fork in HN. It's over. Enjoy the echo chamber that this place will inevitably become.

[orthoganol]

There are echo chamber aspects of HN... Especially Sam's AMA, which I was hoping would be a discussion of Sam's life, philosophies, interesting anecdotes, etc. like it is over on Reddit, but instead was predominantly questions about how to get into YC :(.

Even so I'll take the good with the bad, you still get great insights on technology. It just morphs for the worse when YC companies post, or the topic turn to getting into YC.

[jv22222]

If you've been following HN for 4+ years then you will have noticed that, in some ways, HN is already an echo chamber.

The same regular startupy stories with different titles crop up as each new batch of folks discover HN. I'm talking about things like...

- How I increased my conversion funnel by x%

- What I learnt from my 3 failed startups

- [Entreporn Startup] Raises 50m

- How I earned $500k as an indie games developer

- Etc.

[vixen99]

"Negativity isn't the problem--gratuitous negativity is. By that we mean negativity that adds nothing of substance to a comment".

You obviously read this or you wouldn't comment. So can you explain how there's anything remiss about this statement?

'Nothing of substance' = hot air useful only for pushing up an empty skimpy container.