Honestly to be expected here. I opened up about my own homelessness while being employed in my field of study for over 20 years. I received a bunch of vitriol and downvotes for my honesty. If ever you need a reminder that you are surrounded by "anarcho-capitalists" just scroll through any HN comments field pertaining to the intersection of ethics and the economy.

There's a lot of abstract victim-blaming here re articles etc, and for sure the SV set for the most part is pretty clueless about the real world (though it looks like it's coming for them!).

But people here seem a bit less threatened by very poor individuals actually posting here than in most online places. I know from my own experience that mentioning you're homeless is usually a red rag to a bull. Add that you're an unemployed software developer, and the self-loathing middle class is often very quickly off on a hate-rampage. Less so here, for some reason. Perhaps just because people here are focused on topics of common interest, so if you're a loser (generally hated by the winners, worried that by the grace of providence they might have been you ..), at least you're one of our losers?

HN is a big forum, so you get all kinds here, but it is at least not mod policy to actively encourage membership to target and hate on its poorest members as was done to me elsewhere while I was homeless -- on a forum that gets chatted up an excessive amount as some wonderful online space.