I had left another remark elsewhere in this discussion then deleted it because I didn't feel well and decided the less said by me, the better. I still don't feel well and for that reason was simply going to not reply.
My deleted remark was to the effect that HN has a business purpose for Y Combinator in that it is used as part of their applicant screening process. However, it is not something drectly monetized and is a side project and free service. A lot of the issues here are known issues and have been known a long time. But fixing them is not a high priority for the people who run the site, thus the community copes as bet it can. This thread is an example of one of the coping mechanisms employed by the community.
Paul Graham has better things to do than worry about your ungrateful critisms. Frankly, so do I. I am getting well from a deadly medical condition which has left me deeply in debt and homeless. I need to be trying to figure out how to get traffic and monetize my websites, not coddling some spoiled hypercritical noob (dwj's account is currently 21 hours old and this is their second comment).