The 2009-2010 HN crowd was mostly startup founders, investors, and employees 1 and 2 and it was also mostly people in the US. The 2013-2014 crowd is mostly not startup founders, investors, and employees 1 and 2m and it's probably 50% US folks. As many other recent HN folks have said, "HN is just another subreddit now." That results in a very different hive mind today than in years' past.
If it was me, I'd be wary of making "business decisions" based on the answer to a popularity contest on a site mostly frequented by people who (a) don't live in my country, (b) didn't grow up in the countries I want to do business in, and (c) do not and have not ever actually owned or run a business.
The problem, of course, is figuring out whose advice to take and whose to ignore. Always tricky...