[Lewton]

I wouldn't be surprised if money wasn't involved, HN has always worked like this.

Some tech post about some technology gets a ton of votes, some people get excited about the tech, they investigate and find articles about that tech, they share it, and all the excited people upvote it.

Has happened several times with Rust, Go, Ember, Meteor, Angular, TypeScript, etc etc

This time android support and that steve yegge blog post set it off (it probably wasn't an accident that these two coincided though?)

It's like an echo-chamber with ADHD