I’ve never seen names be big in the industry in this way before. It used to be founders, now it’s personalities.

I'll reserve judgement until I've heard what ThePrimeagen and simonw have to say about this.

This gave me a good laugh because we don’t know what to think until Jon Blow says, “Here’s the thing.”

I'll reserve judgement until I've read what HN commenters have to say about this.

At least in this case we're talking about someone doing something useful and providing tons of value to the field, not about people being praised for starting a company and raising money.