[sz4kerto]

It's slightly tricky because people usually upvote what they are interested in. Therefore if a big bunch of people are interested in Win10, then it is just completely normal if they upvote these topics. Similarly, basically every new Apple hardware ends up on the top of HN. Same applies to many other things -- secure messaging, depression/burnout related articles, all Tesla news, etc.

It's very hard to run a news site and keep stuff out that actually interest people.

I very much doubt that these articles are upvoted by employees, etc.

[ebbv]

The web developer community is well known to have a massive Apple bias. I'm not surprised by Apple stuff going to the top quickly, usually.

But this post in particular is suspect because it is totally devoid of content. Look at the comments so far, the most discussion has been prompted by the lack of content resulting in wondering how on earth this got to the top so quickly.

I'd bet dollars to donuts there was coordinated voting by Microsoft employees. Lots of companies do it on reddit, it's much less common here at HN (I think), but it still does happen.

[mynameisvlad]

> web developer community

What makes you say this is the only community on HN? I personally wouldn't say there's one specific community HN caters to beyond "technology people". There's all sorts of topics posted daily on here, and only a select few cater to web devs. Honestly, if it's something done by one of the big companies (Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, etc), it'll most likely get on HN because there is no one particular focus.

[oldmanjay]

Accusations of shilling without evidence are typically boring. This post is not an exception.

[ebbv]

You know what's even more boring? Someone replying with "This is boring." without contributing anything.