But he said there was something apparent from the responses, like there was a quality problem of some sort. There are over 50 posts in this thread, a lot of them from HN users with relatively high karma.
Yes, the point of the thread is to match work seekers with providers. Clearly nobody is at work today, and the only people posting are seekers. There's only 3 "seeking freelancer" replies out of 61 posts
You might have a point. I counted six of them so far in this thread, other threads seem to average at about 12. But then again, this is only a few hours old. Looks like startup people are hanging out here on weekends :)