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I'm 100% concerned that this post was AstroTurf'd to the front of HN given the negative article posted against Lambda hours before. This managed to hustle up in
by urda 7y ago
I'm 100% concerned that this post was AstroTurf'd to the front of HN given the negative article posted against Lambda hours before. This managed to hustle up in less than 15 minutes and kept climbing.
- runawaybottle 7y agoHow do you do that?
- dang 7y agoI took a quick look at the early votes and they look legit to me. Several of them came from people posting the article all at once, which converts into an upvote of an existing submission if there already is one. Perhaps the presence of the other thread contributed to this being particularly topical today. Edit: a bit of confirming evidence is that most of those early voters voted for both threads, i.e. this one and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22366474 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22366474.
- urda 7y agoOK thanks for checking it out I feel a lot better about it then.
- dang 7y agoIn the future, it'd be helpful to email questions like this to hn@ycombinator.com. The site guidelines ask you not to post about this in threads, and also it's basically random whether we end up seeing it. An email is nearly certain to get seen, and if we see it, we'll look into the issue and get back to you. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- urda 7y agoWill do, I had not thought of that.
- minimaxir 7y agoI upvoted because it's newsworthy, even if the timing is suspicious.
- exolymph 7y agoYou're surprised that people are interested in the next installment of an SV Twitter / YC world startup kerfuffle? Everyone's getting out their popcorn.
- _bxg1 7y agoThe news is absolutely timed by Lambda itself to counter the negative coverage, but it made HN because it's relevant and people are watching the play-by-play.