Thanks for posting this here, I'm a big fan of Hacker News.
By the way, I'll have some free time (at least for the next few weeks), so if any HN folks have any questions related to PR, feel free to shoot me a note (email is in my profile).
OK. TechCrunch is not one of the absolute worst websites ever to grace the internet, its employees are not the dregs of our industry, and contemplating the opportunities available to those who worked on it definitely does not give me a god damn ulcer. Under no circumstances is the world a worse place in every single way for its existence.
By the way, I'll have some free time (at least for the next few weeks), so if any HN folks have any questions related to PR, feel free to shoot me a note (email is in my profile).