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This is actually a very good article. It leans a little towards caricature (insofar as it takes the detached perspective on HN of people who seem not to inhabit HN regularly, and so seems more inclined to credit the criticisms), but not nearly as much as I was expecting it to.

This was also a very accurate description:

> Skipping from thread to thread felt a bit like arriving at a party where half the room was sipping non-alcoholic shrubs and the other half had spent the afternoon tailgating in a stadium parking lot.

Reading N-Gate still cracks me up today. But the person behind it was a bit vicious in ascribing to all of HN the motives/aspirations of Y Combinator. His/her description of who inhabits HN seemed much more to the point when directed at YC instead.