From their about page, it seems they very much do not want to be like HN:
> Some things that are off-topic here but popular on larger, similar sites: entrepreneurship, management, news about companies that employ a lot of programmers, investing, world events, anthropology, self-help, personal productivity systems, last-resort customer service requests via public shaming
My “we’re like a startup” experience was all the uncertainty of a startup along with all the bureaucracy of big tech which resulted in pivoting to a new 12 month roadmap every 6 months…
These just sound like opportunities to learn. If you’re on average outperforming betting odds then of course use your system. For the chess and driving examples you can analyze those recommendations to figure out the rationale and incorporate a new strategy or a new route in your knowledge (or learning the system is unreliable and avoid it).