My 2c would be: - tech-oriented publicists / marketers definitely do know that HN exists and matters - there are “benign” ways to game HN, like releasing at a

My 2c would be: - tech-oriented publicists / marketers definitely do know that HN exists and matters - there are “benign” ways to game HN, like releasing at an optimal time for readership / upvotes - there are less nice ways, like sock puppet accounts / botting - all of these things are certainly done regularly - it doesn’t mean that everything you read was an astroturfed psy-op or whatever.