You're right. The only people this kind of article would speak out to are nice, lonely guys who are online on a Saturday night.

It's not, really, but there's presumably a number of "good guy" geeks here who have difficulty interacting with the opposite sex. Unfortunately the hacker-entrepreneur community is also implicitly a community of guys with various inadequacy issues, so stories like this (I remember one purporting to explain why beautiful women marry less attractive men making it the front page) and, say, stories about getting bullied get voted up.

because most hackers here married their right-hands,unfortunately.

because this is the new reddit?

/* This story could be hacker news if the discussion were focused on:

1. how countervailing strategies can be successful for some niches

2. what this tells us about human motivation

3. some other aspect that tells us something about what it is to be human.

but since the discussion seems to have started at the level of rhetorical oneupsmanship and be sinking rapidly into resentful misogyny; it is neither news, nor for hackers. */