I've been on HN for a long time, before this account on other anonymous ones. It certainly seemed that in the 2010s there was a more hopeful undercurrent of startup activity, even as external events like Occupy Wall Street happened, but that wasn't as big on HN as e.g. Reddit, but now it seems like people have brought that energy to HN in more numbers, even if some have stayed the same as the sibling says.

Some even have specific agendas as evidenced by their submission history and comments which all seem to follow specific biases too.