Not really clear on your tone, but HN exists as a tech forum because it is developed and hosted by Y Combinator, which funded Airbnb in a seed round (which I believe they still have, and assume is substantially valuable). So there is the probably more of a complicated community dynamic than "HN is extremely anti-Airbnb"

Clearly, based on the comments on this article, that isn't remotely true.

As someone who lives in a city with one of the most severe rental crisis in the world, with a 3:1 ratio of Airbnb properties to rental properties: I earnestly hope they go bankrupt tomorrow and their founders are tried as accomplices to the violations of local law they facilitate.

* https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/nov/29/empty-dublin-...

wdewind was presumably talking about Fast Company, who are most certainly celebrating them.

Maybe, but AirBnB has also been held up as a positive story of tenacity and disruption in this community as well. It's probably gone on so long it's become a parody of itself, but people keep writing these articles because people keep reading them.