Perhaps you're right, maybe this illustrates my own cognitive bias.
Of course that Day 1 post doesn't reflect the HN discussion since then, and current comments don't either.
But more small-sample-size anecdata would be to look at recent comments:
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Of the 20 most recent comments, I'd say 12 are negative, 4 are positive and 4 are neutral. (Your comment showed up in my search and I counted it as neutral.)