I am all for banning them all from Hackernews; it'd be both for the good of society as well as for them. Their "working years" are very short, many of them don't make it to 45 years of life and generally live horrible lives past age 30, likely as obese misanthropists if they weren't smart enough to enter management. I find it terrible that people are financing their disastrous choices, then moving onto new younger developers, keeping alive vicious cycle that spits out ruined persons. Talk to some therapists that have to deal with the "outcomes" of that industry...