Comment by sho_hn

Imho, the fly.io people are largely performative HN attention seekers that practice writing posts to produce engagement. It's almost charming in the way it resembles the early-on blogosphere, and you should read them as token summaries of "this is a popular sentiment right now, framed to appear a bit wise and edgy". They're often wordy versions of "that one trick they don't want you to know" or "am I really the only one that [actually quite popular thing]".

In the sense that the posts distill whatever HN at the time would accept as thought leadership it's a good pulse check on the community.