Yes, if Hacker News was invite only and originally secret (it's only been publicly viewable for a month or so) -- with public upvoting, no downvoting anywhere, an explicit popularity contest, no outbound links, and metered posting.
Dribbble is a hugbox. HN is more of a bucket of dicks.
-runs off to thread where industry X is RETARDED because they don't know anything about computers
(Aww, I'm just kidding you, Hackernews! You know I love you.)