I don't think it's completely off topic. I'm not trying to be snarky, but he says "The world doesn’t need a slightly better Twitter, just as the world doesn’t need a slightly better ad model." as he writes on his slightly better blogging platform. I think there's always room for new and improved versions of existing services, but they just have to stand out and have the community behind them to succeed.

Especially since most innovation is "slightly better x". Facebook was just a slightly better social network, google a slightly better search engine. That's how great things start.

I think that is point was dead on. We don't need this crap. However, maybe he just doesn't listen to his advice. :) But, the advice is stll good.

Well, yeah. Dustin managed to convince a whole bunch of startup founders and investors to use his blog platform. They were already people HN was interested in reading. It's no surprise they're still people HN is interested in reading.