Comment by dang

These perceptions are extremely easy to imagine based on seeming patterns that usually boil down to nothing when we look at the data. That's why the site guidelines ask people not to post insinuations of infiltration, astroturfing, shillage, etc., at least if there's nothing concrete to go on.

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

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

It's natural for people to post about what they know about from work, and they're naturally biased in favor of their employer, so that's a thing. Even more of a thing is just that each $bigco has both a fanbase and a foebase, and the two of them go at it in every $bigco-related thread.