Why posting on HN felt like a boxing match – Comic Included (onescientist.com)

Round two.

I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round

A lot of the original discussion can be chalked up to HN's unfortunate habit of treating all front page material the same, regardless of whether it's an article proving Fermat's Last Theorem or a spur-of-the-moment blog post from some random dude.

But you should expect that on a website primarily populated by INTP users.

So he has to post apologising for being self important to a bunch of HN posters who were being self important? Says sad things about the state of HN these days. Am I the only one thinking HN has become an echo-chamber of negativity any time a story has any of an author's personality in it?