With treatement like that, I’d prefer to avoid this person and all their content.

That's exactly what he wants from the horde on this site. To not visit his site :)

Your loss. Jamie Zawinski probably helped write a lot of the software you're using right now, and has observed the internet almost since its birth.

Do you know why he has such an aversion to HN?

No -- I don't know him personally -- but I would guess that he thinks it's a pile of amoral greed-heads and ignorant children.

No, because HN is the people he worked for - the people who use him winning the startup lottery to explain away all the losers of that lottery and keep feeding young, impressionable people to the startup destruction machine.

Pretty much that, I reckon. He’s warned anyone who would listen not to work as hard as he did while at Netscape. But at the same time, he did win the startup lottery, so there’s that.

Well, he isn't exactly wrong. But redirecting like that is pretty immature in itself.

I agree. He could just redirect to a blank page but this puts him in a really bad light. I wouldn't care except I frequently browse HN at work when I'm getting settled in in the morning.