This seems to be just weird propaganda from some intelligence company/person. How is this allowed on hacker news? This forum is fairly closely moderated, is it only articles critical of YC that get removed?
Propaganda is political, promoting your company is marketing. Besides, this seems to be more extreme in it's lack of fairness/ journalistic merit. It seems to be just like I said, weird propaganda, not really even masquerading as news. It looks auto generated, like a bot farm created a web site and got it on hacker news for the clicks.