And not just that. A pattern I've been more consciously noticing recently (I'm sure it has been there the whole time but that I've just been noticing it more often for some reason) is the huge tendency for people to not just attribute success to luck but to attribute success to luck and failure to error/inherent crappiness, and to do so much more often than they are willing to attribute success to avoidance of error and an inherent goodness and attribute failure to bad luck.

I suspect this stems from some kind of ego factor in that when others succeed one wants it to be due to luck and not some factor that makes the other person "better" than they are, and that when others fail one wants it to be due to the other person being "worse" than they are.

Edit: I must admit that I've seen more and more of this on HN as its audience grows and changes, which is rather unfortunate. :(