For everything that’s wrong with Reddit, I don’t think it’s tall poppy problem is as bad as it is on HN.
Most stories about exceptional achievement on HN will be met with all sort of anecdotal derision. “10x developers don’t exist”, “10x developers are sociopaths”, “10x developers are ‘brilliant jerks’”... other common themes are that people must have exploited others to achieve their success, or that their success is unreasonable because they made too many personal sacrifices to achieve it, or that their success is unfair, because not everybody has the same social skills as them, or whatever other ‘privilege’ people want to nitpick in order to deride them.
This is probably a function of the target audience. If most people on HN work at SV-ish companies where all developers are at a very high level, then the biggest observable difference between them is how obnoxious they are.
Most stories about exceptional achievement on HN will be met with all sort of anecdotal derision. “10x developers don’t exist”, “10x developers are sociopaths”, “10x developers are ‘brilliant jerks’”... other common themes are that people must have exploited others to achieve their success, or that their success is unreasonable because they made too many personal sacrifices to achieve it, or that their success is unfair, because not everybody has the same social skills as them, or whatever other ‘privilege’ people want to nitpick in order to deride them.