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>For how counter-cultural HN has always prided itself in being

Really? A bunch of engineering types who work for big corporations and who also dream and or do start their own hopefully big corporations prides themselves as being "counter-cultural?" That seems like a tough generalization to support.

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It’s also encumbant company solely owned by the worlds richest man versus enormous global corporation mostly owned by another one. There is no counter-culture here.

Right, and the closest thing I can recall to a counter-culture here is occasionally seeing the suggestion that software engineers should unionize. The rest is bread and butter tech culture (which loves obscure technical topics, psychedelic drugs, discussing money, various ways of accomplishing tasks in a clever way, statistics, design and so on).

The top-voted comment on any article is usually a comment claiming the article is wrong. We're definitely counter-something.

Contrarian fits the bill

Except for the articles and comments that are flagged and removed. So the "counterculture" is only the opinions everyone mostly agrees with.

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