Does Google,Apple,Microsoft,Amazon,etc. officially follow HN?

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Does the people from Google,Apple,Microsoft,Amazon,Yahoo,etc. read and react to the hacker news?

There exist people in all of those organizations who read HN. It has been known to cause them to escalate things internally. I'm going to elide pointing to examples because several of those companies would institutionally prefer that there exist no backchannels into their org charts and it is definitely to the interest of HNers that HN continues to be an effective escalation mechanism into their org charts.

It is probably important to your understanding of Big Companies (TM) that a big company is referred to as a single entity for purposes of corporate personhood and shorthand, but they rarely act as a single body, but rather as a collection of people and sub-organizations who are colliding together in Brownian motion.

Lets take an example. If a bug is found in Android and Someone first reports it on HN. Will google acknowledge about the bug on HN?

That would be a very stupid thing to do, but you might have someone respond with "I have forwarded this to the appropriate people in Google."

Happened ever before on HN?

Ask a simple question, get a simple answer: yes.

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