&gt; <i>Welcome to Hacker News, where people&#x27;s conflict of interests are not disclosed.</i><p>A statement about Hacker News that could just as easily be made about the world in general doesn&#x27;t carry any information about HN. Many (perhaps most) of the claims I read about HN fall in this bucket.<p>&gt; <i>If you can pay $100&#x2F;hr for an anonymous &#x27;personal assistant&#x27; you can pay for a real personal assistant.</i><p>Isn&#x27;t this a matter of batch sizes? I might pay $100 for the occasional hour but couldn&#x27;t hire a full-time personal assistant. I wouldn&#x27;t hire a full-time accountant or dentist either.