DHH is probably sore because of comments like this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5033493

You may be right. But I'd be happy if there was an alternative to HN. Maybe restricted by Github activity or something.

His blog posts are spam, his fans make him $$$. HN is one of the main channels for his fans to be exposed to his spam. And he is unhappy? I am really sick of that company and their vapid lifestyle marketing.

Yawn

King of the tools, bites the hand that made him.

For the curious, it's David Heinemeier Hansson and works for 37 Signals.

I dont think anything of him or 37 Signals.

Who cares?