That's funny because you could! Dropbox started a shell script :)

Funny though I would assume HN people would respect how hard real-time stuff and 'hardened' stuff is.

I think GP is referencing this somewhat [in]famous post/comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863#9224

HN audience has shifted, there is less technically minded people and more hustlers and farmers from other social media waste spaces. But alas.