[jacquesm]

Medium.com has been literally flooding the HN front page in the last few weeks, not a day goes by without 1, 2 or as earlier today even 4 articles (for want of a better term) on the homepage.

Comparable content from other sources would normally not gain nearly as many upvotes in as short a time as the medium.com stuff does.

You know there is something afoot when a medium.com story gets more upvotes and appears on the homepage seconds after being posted contrasted with for instance an article written by Joe Armstrong or phys.org article about the visualization of chemical bonds being formed and broken.

That's not proof by a long shot but there is definitely something going on there.