Rah Rah Rah! If your startup is not winning, just pivot, and be positive enough, and you will inevitably win. Selection bias doesn't exist and was made up by negative Nancys.
Seriously though, stick a fork in HN. It's over. Enjoy the echo chamber that this place will inevitably become.
There are echo chamber aspects of HN... Especially Sam's AMA, which I was hoping would be a discussion of Sam's life, philosophies, interesting anecdotes, etc. like it is over on Reddit, but instead was predominantly questions about how to get into YC :(.
Even so I'll take the good with the bad, you still get great insights on technology. It just morphs for the worse when YC companies post, or the topic turn to getting into YC.
Seriously though, stick a fork in HN. It's over. Enjoy the echo chamber that this place will inevitably become.