samson, As we all know, if your startup plan relies on getting a review on TC, you're going to fail.
Some people are living in a bubble, so they think a review on TC matters.
My gripe with TC is that lately, most of their articles have been based on "anonymous sources" or gossip. Having said that, I don't really mind too much either way if they're banned or not. I'd much rather they started reporting unbiased facts and news.
Real estate is important and for every link to techcrunch, and for that matter, cnn, nytimes, washingtonpost, and all the other mainstream sources there is less room for somethign outside the mainstream and finding that stuff outside the mainstream is why I have liked HN so much in the past.
The lack of that kind of watered-down-for-the-masses content is why I found HN so appealing. I would much rather read hacked together transcripts from Dijkstra's brain.
It's not so much that I have something against those publications, but rather that it is easy to get that content somewhere else. People forward it or it's at digg or something.
Which niche is HN meant to fill?
It seems like as the population of a community approaches infinity, the mainstreamness of the content approaches 100%.
