Item — HN Reader

Not exactly sure why that wouldn't be the default assumption. It's a pretty small subset afaict. Seems like size 1 before 2024 from a brief search.

Presumably more people there have read hn at least some. But there's perspective having seen the ebb and flow of hn/the rest of the ecosystem for the last 16 years and how that intersects with deepseek culture.

It's clear openai culture is influenced by yc culture, which would be clear to an hn user. Google/ant/spacexai have influences hn users users would be familiar with. Hn users from them would potentially know the friendfeed connections to yc/vc/openai, 500 startups/techstars etc..

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It *is* a small subset, but I don’t see what’s so surprising. HN is just an ordinary tech community; it’s not surprising for people from any tech company to show up there.

But... no-one mentioned surprise except you, did they? Something being uncommon doesn't connote being surprising, at least not always.

It's uncommon for me to have takeaway pizza, but I don't think anyone I know would be surprised when I do.

I'm pretty sure the subtext of what I commented on was that he was surprised.

Your friends probably wouldn't go out of their way to ask you why you ordered a takeaway pizza which is uncommon. But if they did ask, it usually means they were surprised.