A large chunk of the hacker community is probably close to libertarian, and that...

A large chunk of the hacker community is probably close to libertarian, and that was well known and well criticised. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Californian_Ideology)

Well back in the day it was, I don't think an article like this would have been that controversial on hackernews many years ago. A lot of pauls earlier writing has similar stances.

As more people have joined, it moved quite heavily to the left.