[bnchrch]

For those that come straight to the comments:

This reddit post was written hours before the outage

[tonynator]

Simply search "crowdstrike" or "crwd" in the subreddit for evidence of regular posts about this stock, both positive and negative. Just a coincidence, and not really that special of one. HN should be smarter than this

[neilv]

Amusing conspiracy theory:

1. Quietly compromise enterprise IT vendor X.

2. Sockpuppet post on /r/wallstreetbets, suggesting shorting X, for any reason (doesn't matter why).

3. Place big bet against X's stock.

4. Use your compromise of X to accelerate a big public failure by X.

5. Profit, and the WSB post by your sockpuppet is your plausible reason for shorting X, and you're only one of a crowd who did so.

6. Bonus: sockpuppet account becomes WSB folk hero, as others also profit from tip, which is political capital you can spend later.

[a0123]

Can't use X like that anymore.

Makes it sound like you're talking about the site formerly known as Tiwtter.

[quantified]

Why not? They chose to be named as the most popular independent variable of all time. It would be super ironic if we change how we refer to things because of their preferences for calling themselves.

[neilv]

We shouldn't let billionaires destroy language, and we don't have to.

[josefritzishere]

Elon ruined the letter X.

[nikau]

i thought that was wayland