YC for sure is, HN should be separated from it and run independently. There’s tons of brigading against any criticism of YC or any of its portfolio companies. Just the other day someone re-posted OpenAI’s post about how GPT-2 was too dangerous to release (in response to the similar recent claim about Claude Mythos), I saw it hit #1 and then a few minutes later it had gotten flagged off the front page.
replyWe all have a different definition of toxic. HN gets really toxic sometimes, but it goes with the ideology of the site, so it’s like nobody notices. And that applies to all platforms, including Twitter.
replyI see overt racism and sexism posted here frequently.
replyIt's usually couched in sophisticated-sounding faux-intellectual language, though, which is the key to posting whatever you want here. You can say literally anything on HN, so long as you camouflage it with SV techbro vernacular.
I don't even know what your thresholds are. They could be very low, like misgendering something and you see it as sexism - or simply refusing to call someone "they". For all I know you could be one of those people who stand up and call that sexism or transmisogyny.
replyMisgendering someone or refusing to recognize their gender identity is sexism and transmisogyny.
reply> Misgendering someone or refusing to recognize their gender identity is sexism and transmisogyny.
replyIt must be some "ist" of you to assume it isn't transmisandry instead.
(And not sure that anything related to gender identity specifically divorced from sex is "sexism.")
You can be as snarky and dismissive about it as you want, it is what it is.
replyI'm simply not going to call someone "they", and I consider myself a pretty liberal person.
replyThis means your threshold is fairly low.
You're allowed to have those opinions, of course. We can talk about other things.