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You know, I was so happy when I discovered HN. It is normally such a refreshing respite from all the other tech blogs and aggregators, and from /r/tech in particular.

But over the past few weeks I keep seeing vapid, information-less articles like this make it to the front page, and it's pretty disappointing to see happen. The knee-jerk anti-Apple sentiments seem to have infected even this (mostly) austere and considerate site.

I hope this is a temporary thing.

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It's not a temporary thing, and in fact had been going on for a few years now. We are currently in the phase of blatant link bait self posted blogs gaming the front page. Prior to this tend for the past year or so, there was the "rah-rah look at this cool startup and secretly plug my own" phase. The current one will likely continue until a big bust or something else comes along. Likely the latter.

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