Irony on HN (especially against the HN crowd) is also frowned upon.

For example, A company that didn't use Kubernetes [0] had their blog knocked down and the HN crowd was jubilant over the matter to recommend them to use K8s for a blog. It's not even their main service offering.

Then 48 hours later [1], major parts of the internet using Akamai went down and the company that previously was 'the joke' was still up. All I suggested was for Akamai to use K8s as well. [2]

I turned the joke on them and got downvoted due to the irony of the situation. Look at the comments in [0] and [1] and you can see the strength of [2] humiliating their short lived victory parade.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27893482

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27920665

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27920792

It's funny to see people with thousands of karma pretend that there is a universal "HN crowd" that shares all opinions in all threads, but that they are of course not part of... That's just not how it works.