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Re:I love you, Hacker News, but you’re toxic by beaconstudios on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @01:11PM (#30350338)
There's a subset of ideas and culture associated with "techbro" beyond just being interested in technology. Obnoxiously Libertarian, overly analytical (lack of holistic perspective), crypto pumping, sometimes pretty racist/sexist (though I would say that's a subset). It's a particular cultural strain of people interested in software, not all young men who code.

These people were "finance bros" working in hedge funds before the VC/startup industry took off, and crypto became the most popular way to scam people.

Edit: actually the "overly analytical" might fall more into the stemlord category, who routinely get mislabelled as techbros.

Re:I love you, Hacker News, but you’re toxic by rootsudo on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @10:26PM (#30356024)
So much work to keep up with the labels, I just do what I enjoy and so do many other people. It's sad that people just acost and label it as some sort of "bro" label and try to make it negative.
Re:I love you, Hacker News, but you’re toxic by beaconstudios on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @10:11AM (#30360952)
I don't think anybody "keeps up with labels" as such, and it's not about people doing what they enjoy - it's about certain abrasive personality types that are drawn to programming.