it seems like a minor thing but I feel like the way that HN reacts to soatok's blog is kind of a microcosm of techbro culture

these people act all tough, constantly portraying themselves as fiercely independent, out-of-the-box thinkers, innovating and disrupting and revolutionizing industries, nobody can touch them, everything is about technical merit, no identity politics

and then those same people end up harassing a furry blogger over the art in their blogposts, because they're afraid that they might be seen as *slightly weird* when they link the post to colleagues for the technical content within it (which they will acknowledge is very good, ie. full of merit)