Is assumption here that if you are a technical enthusiast and read this site, you have to support whatever leftist phenomenon is happening? This has nothing to do with technology at all.
Well, HN has gone full leftist social justice! The article complains about how there are very few black and mestizo employees without ever wondering if there are differences in racial populations that would account for this. There is certainly no problem in finding Chinese engineers is there?
That, and they took an investment from Andreessen-Horowitz and their 2 years is up! I don't think they were able to make a go of it and the writing is on the wall.