[bunni]

Nothing in that letter is believable. It's too perfect a troll. Viral marketing.

[rubber_duck]

Surprised how effective it is and the responses it's getting here. This place used to have a lot of smart people and entrepreneurial people - now it's turning in to another 9-5 tech forum

[chjohasbrouck]

If it's posted on HN and getting upvoted to the front page, I think people tend to assume a certain level of credibility based on that alone.

If you assume that about this story, it's pretty shocking and worthy of some discussion, so you might upvote it. I thought it was real for the first few paragraphs and my jaw was on the floor. It's a pretty obvious fake though.

[rubber_duck]

>If it's posted on HN and getting upvoted to the front page, I think people tend to assume a certain level of credibility based on that alone.

Yea that's my problem - this used to be true - but not recently - now it's like reddit without the memes.

[Jaruzel]

Then do something about it. Submit some quality stories.

That said, I do struggle to understand how some stuff whooshes to the front page, and other equally interesting stuff just gets ignored...