Such links are by no means a recent phenomenon. HN has for many years downweighted most major media sites—if this article appearing on HN seems unusual to you, it's probably because that system is working. But we override those penalties when an article seems interesting, and I thought what Tim has to say in this context might be interesting. Maybe I was wrong about that.

If people keep posting generic yay-crypto-boo-crypto flamewar tropes and hopelessly generic comments—the most boring kind of comment there is—then obviously this thread is hopeless.