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Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

That is my own opinion as an Android developer and ex custom ROM maintainer, I've not read that blog post.

Instead of ad-hominem, can you explain what do you really disagree on?

Cromulent for describing something of secondary importance or shadowy nature yes, but the entire idea is that that is wrong.