So he saw a small number of comments that were “personal attacks” (what were they?) and he chooses to generalize and launch his own “personal attack” against the entire HN community. From a person ironically posting on Twitter/X all the time, which is the most toxic community there is. In fact, in a reply to his own post, Peter shared an example of a personal attack … from Twitter/X (https://xcancel.com/steipete/status/2025354408700113274).

I also saw Andrej Karpathy reply to this post from Peter and he supported Peter’s take on HN (https://xcancel.com/karpathy/status/2025352414648566071). Weirdly, he doesn’t care about the problems on Twitter/X either, or that he is a close associate of Elon Musk, who regularly calls for remigration, AKA ethnic cleansing. Yet he has the nerve to call HN toxic.

These people are soft skinned but also propagandists, spreading a false take about the HN community. What’s actually happening is that they don’t care about the much larger toxicity on the platforms they use like Twitter/X, because it does not affect them personally. They don’t care about THAT toxicity. But if some random comment, one among hundreds, attacks them on Hacker News, suddenly this is a problematic platform. In other words, they’re willing to overlook all the harm suffered by people (mostly minorities) due to Twitter/X but they will not tolerate a single harm to themselves.