I&#x27;m honestly shocked at the lack of empathy on display in this comment thread. The technology world has a diversity problem—why not assume that this is a good-faith effort to address it, just expressed in words you don&#x27;t like? Why instead flip directly into Internet Outrage Status?<p>This kind of outpouring of rage, to be frank, is why Hacker News has such a bad reputation. Look around at the comments here: there are people complaining about the <i>very notion</i> that there might be something wrong with how hiring and promotion happens in technology. There are people, like @yoodenvranx, equating their own anecdotal problems with the victimization of white men. There are countless comments asserting that we are capable of &quot;pure meritocracy,&quot; a notion that is invalidated by research on implicit bias.<p>The overwhelming consensus here is that (a) there is no problem, and (b) GitHub&#x27;s attempts to address it are unjust. This is why Hacker News looks to the outside world like a self-affirming bubble with no grounding in reality.