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Does everything have to be a conspiracy? So either Microsoft is building some good and interesting stuff, or there's some conspiracy to target HN that would get them...what, exactly? +Karma here?

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Not just karma, too many lazy engineers choose their stack almost solely on a quick scan on HN to see what's cool.

You can date many startups by first looking at their stack, and then checking when that stack was cool here.

Not only here but in general "coolness" is one of the main factors for choosing tech in startups.

2008 - So did you rewrite your PHP apps in Ruby?

2012 - So did you rewrite your Ruby apps in Node?

2015 - So did you rewrite your Node apps in Go?

I'd dispute the 2015 one. There have been lots of Go related articles on HN, but Go usually gets a mixed reception.

I think it would actually be pretty interesting to do some kind of visualization over time with popularity of languages and mentions on forums like this.

For nearly any reoccurring subject on HN, someone on HN likely believes any non-negative comments about it are the result of shills.

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