Do other people check before submitting to HN? Hope this doesn't come across as stroppy (not my intent) but there are seven others who've posted this story aft

Do other people check before submitting to HN? Hope this doesn't come across as stroppy (not my intent) but there are seven others who've posted this story after this link. I appreciate they're not the exact same site, so one could argue that they provide different insight, but in an acquisition story like this the core points will be the same (since they'll all have got them from the PR!)