<story><title>F-35&apos;s Towed Decoys</title><url>https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/27185/f-35s-most-sinister-capability-are-towed-decoys-that-unreel-from-inside-its-stealthy-skin</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>maxxxxx</author><text>After a lot of bad news about the F35 it seems the PR effort has started to make it look better. Lots of positive articles about it all of a sudden.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jjoonathan</author><text>This has happened to me a few times before following a single boredom-induced chumbox click.&lt;p&gt;Advanced military toys are always good for nerd sniping, recommender algorithms know this, and they will eagerly amplify a small amount of demonstrated interest into a deluge of recommendations. I&amp;#x27;m pretty sure that&amp;#x27;s what&amp;#x27;s happening here.&lt;p&gt;So yes, it&amp;#x27;s certainly a bought and paid for PR effort, but I wouldn&amp;#x27;t conclude that it&amp;#x27;s localized in time, just that HN recently wandered into it. Now, if you&amp;#x27;ll excuse me, I&amp;#x27;ll take my leave to go read about the fabulous toys my tax dollars are paying for.</text></comment>
<story><title>F-35&apos;s Towed Decoys</title><url>https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/27185/f-35s-most-sinister-capability-are-towed-decoys-that-unreel-from-inside-its-stealthy-skin</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>maxxxxx</author><text>After a lot of bad news about the F35 it seems the PR effort has started to make it look better. Lots of positive articles about it all of a sudden.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eatonphil</author><text>My impression is that there are two things at play:&lt;p&gt;1) Once you&amp;#x27;ve noticed something, you tend to notice it more often.&lt;p&gt;2) Novel (or uncommon) articles on HN that get to the front page tend to attract other articles on the same topic. I can imagine this along the lines of:&lt;p&gt;Human 1: Hey apparently there&amp;#x27;s an audience on HN for topic X that I enjoy! I wonder if HN is also interested in this related article on topic X.&lt;p&gt;Or Human 2: Hey here&amp;#x27;s this interesting related article I discovered while looking at front-page article Y on topic X.&lt;p&gt;The summary of all of this is to say that my guess is that like attracts like and uncommon topics die down fairly quickly in time. I imagine that it is less of a concerted effort by stakeholders to push and direct topic X than just the effects of a curious and diverse group.</text></comment>