I'm only aware of two submission cases from his blog where this as happened: 1) His post about Apple something-or-another 2) His second post bitching about the

I'm only aware of two submission cases from his blog where this as happened: 1) His post about Apple something-or-another 2) His second post bitching about the first submission getting killed. One thing HN has been pretty consistent about is minimal tolerance for bitching/meta-bitching. Overall I think that most of his content is neutrally interesting at best, and he hasn't struck me as a terribly insightful author. Having a submission to one of his blog stories killed is hardly a grand-scale conspiracy or an indication of any singular view held by HN or pg.