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>Microsoft has admitted to gaming Hackernews This is interesting. Where did you see that?
by bguebert 5y ago
>Microsoft has admitted to gaming Hackernews
This is interesting. Where did you see that?
- fartcannon 5y agohttps://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/microsoft-corp-msft-q1-201 https://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/microsoft-corp-msft-q1-201... "In fact, this morning, I was reading a news article in Hacker News, which is a community where we have been working hard to make sure that Azure is growing in popularity and I was pleasantly surprised to see that we have made a lot of progress..."
- hdjjhhvvhga 5y agoThis is an extremely important piece of information. It made me sad at first, because I'd expect that smart people (that includes dang & pg, not only the users) are harder to game. Nevertheless, when you take into account almost limitless resources Microsoft has, it's no wonder they managed to influence the discussion here. Specifically, HN is the main place where I hear the voices that MS completely changed, that they have nothing to do with their misbehavior from the 90s - which seems a bit naïve at least. In any case, it's good to remember that whenever any MS-related topic comes up.