Talking about the idea that AMD was a meme stock on HN seems strange. There were long discussions here before the AMD stock price rise about the technical merit

Talking about the idea that AMD was a meme stock on HN seems strange. There were long discussions here before the AMD stock price rise about the technical merits of their platform, and further discussions about how they were getting better and better distribution after it did release. These are pretty fundamental reasons why a stock price might be likely to go up.