Brutal. Hilarious. Some good points. Some dumb ones (they don't seem to understand how important failure is and why it's good to share your failures). Their mockery is actually quite diverse.
===SV Celebrity Worship===
"Why Elon Musk is the most perfect human being alive today"
===Political===
"A Heart Divided: How a gay JavaScript programmer feels about Brendan Eich"
"Please don't mention Condoleezza Rice. Our autism is above politics."
"10 ways we unknowingly oppress female programmers and enforce patriarchy"
===Juvenile Cliq===
"Reasons why this <obscure new non-stable language that can't even compile™ yet> will replace C as a system language and why you SHOULD use it if you don't want to be left in the dust."
"Why we switched to [obscure framework] and you should too."
===HN flaws===
"<userX>, you seem to be hellbanned for no reason."
===Feel Good Superior Heroism===
"Check out this TED talk about teaching node.js to kids in Africa."
===Love of Javascript===
"Have you heard about our Lord and Saviour JavaScript?"
"How to touch yourself at night without JavaScript knowing it."
"Breaking news! POP3 and IMAP written in Javascript!"
"How I ported the control software of a nuclear reactor to reactive Javascript"
"Linux kernel ported to JavaScript running in the browser. See how we did it."
"How I made a filesystem in javascript."
"How I got my girlfriend pregnant using JavaScript."
"How to avoid getting HIV using JavaScript."
"The Linux kernel doesn't have enough javascript."
"I recommended my boss to rewrite the local powergrid infrastructure to javascript and how I lost my job."
===SV Celebrity Worship===
"Why Elon Musk is the most perfect human being alive today"
===Political===
"A Heart Divided: How a gay JavaScript programmer feels about Brendan Eich"
"Please don't mention Condoleezza Rice. Our autism is above politics."
"10 ways we unknowingly oppress female programmers and enforce patriarchy"
===Juvenile Cliq===
"Reasons why this <obscure new non-stable language that can't even compile™ yet> will replace C as a system language and why you SHOULD use it if you don't want to be left in the dust."
"Why we switched to [obscure framework] and you should too."
===HN flaws===
"<userX>, you seem to be hellbanned for no reason."
===Feel Good Superior Heroism===
"Check out this TED talk about teaching node.js to kids in Africa."
===Love of Javascript===
"Have you heard about our Lord and Saviour JavaScript?"
"How to touch yourself at night without JavaScript knowing it."
"Breaking news! POP3 and IMAP written in Javascript!"
"How I ported the control software of a nuclear reactor to reactive Javascript"
"Linux kernel ported to JavaScript running in the browser. See how we did it."
"How I made a filesystem in javascript."
"How I got my girlfriend pregnant using JavaScript."
"How to avoid getting HIV using JavaScript."
"The Linux kernel doesn't have enough javascript."
"I recommended my boss to rewrite the local powergrid infrastructure to javascript and how I lost my job."