I posit that "to halt operations" is actually related to "$1.2B deal to pay", in TFA. In similar manner to how "Hacker" and "News" are fantastically separate u

I posit that "to halt operations" is actually related to "$1.2B deal to pay", in TFA. In similar manner to how "Hacker" and "News" are fantastically separate utterances, but when we're talking on Hacker News it's pretty regularly a package deal, not an exercise in Levenshtein distance from "Hacker" to "News".