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Make it stop

5 points by instaheat ↗ HN
Acquisition announcements really bother me. They used to fill me with joy, seeing the companies I follow get acquired. Now, I can't stand the announcements that sound like they came straight out of the "announcement generator" tool. I saw the thread on the Hacker Pad announcement emulating exactly how I feel about them.

They all sound exactly the same! I don't know where the excitement went for me, and I am sure they are elated to have been bought by such a large and successful company but I fail to see how some of these garner so much attention.

Give us numbers. Give us the nitty gritty details.

Otherwise, we don't give a shit!

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api
A great many of these are aqui-hires, basically high-level hiring decisions. So the real headline is "founders and top engineers of a marginally successful startup hired by big company."
instaheat
Makes my palms sweat, api.
api
Don't get me wrong. I'm happy for them. But I agree that these aren't really front page news items unless it's a huge acquisition or one that is immensely significant for the economic/political landscape of the industry.

But then again what makes it to the front page here seems quasi-random at times. :)

tptacek
You can usually assume that an M&A announcement that doesn't include numbers means the deal's terms aren't public.

It is hard to argue that "we" don't give a shit that Hackpad got bought by Dropbox. "We" have kept that story bolted to the top of the front page all day.