That's because a lot of folks on HN come from Harvard or Stanford or MIT, where it's drilled into you that this pedigree is super important. There are companies that will not hire you for an engineering role if you don't have a CS degree from a short list of universities unless you're part of an acquisition (and even then).
This gets ignored the second they get $800k in VC money but for some reason the same idea never translates to "real science" or academia.
This gets ignored the second they get $800k in VC money but for some reason the same idea never translates to "real science" or academia.