YCombinator is a VC fund trying to pretend like they’re hacker(tinkering) friendly community, when their business model is boosting their own companies/startups. And companies aren’t hitting those profits with people tinkering.

soatok.blog/…/the-revolution-will-not-make-the-ha…

In all, that doesn’t align with the hacker ethos. They’re just capitalizing on what it stands for with a lot of techbro hubris.

The first step of limiting their influence is using a different opensource frontend.

github.com/rajatkulkarni95/hckrnws