I must disagree with this assessment. I have read dozens of news stories from "mainstream publications" in the past few days and not one of them had the singula

I must disagree with this assessment. I have read dozens of news stories from "mainstream publications" in the past few days and not one of them had the singular lack of sourcing found in this article. Regardless of whether "everyone does it" (which, again, is not true), it's irrelevant to trying to have higher standards for links from Hacker News.