I think it is time to go a bit Meta here, bit I start to subspect that many HN posts are to influence such things, including popular replies to @pmarca etc... w

I think it is time to go a bit Meta here, bit I start to subspect that many HN posts are to influence such things, including popular replies to @pmarca etc... when one says Netflix falls because it is not a tech company, the next day at HN comes an article saying how cool and techie it is, etc. The reach of HN on the tech world is highly influential, and for sure it is weaponized in "communication wars" across actors with different interests. EDIT: that doesn't mean that the given information is necessarily false, it is just presented at the right time, to promote one view of the world. Also when Twitter hit bottom some years ago several HN submissions remind us how they declined being purchased by Facebook etc, and social network giants have a large track of understanding how such information flows and influences people.