HN has been absolutely overwhelmed with Microsoft astroturfing. It's pretty incredible.
Other threads are accusing astroturfing There seems to be little question that Microsoft has targeted HN. The other morning I saw a banal MS post go up at 4am Eastern Time and amass almost 500 upvotes in half an hour. I…
>The pessimist's take: there was a lot to improve. This is the rational take. The prior results were completely out of scale with competing solutions, running two magnitudes slower. Someone finally fired up a profiler…
HN has been absolutely overwhelmed with Microsoft astroturfing. It's pretty incredible.
Other threads are accusing astroturfing There seems to be little question that Microsoft has targeted HN. The other morning I saw a banal MS post go up at 4am Eastern Time and amass almost 500 upvotes in half an hour. I…
>The pessimist's take: there was a lot to improve. This is the rational take. The prior results were completely out of scale with competing solutions, running two magnitudes slower. Someone finally fired up a profiler…