Hacker News Guidelines

> Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter.

This means whenever Microsoft announce something or someone writes about something on Twitter, submit that instead of theverge.com.

The problem is that press releases often only give one side of a "story", while news articles often present it in a valuable narrative context.

E.g. a new product was announced because the old one used to catch fire. I mean the context isn't usually that dramatic, but there's often important information about a price change, or a response to previous consumer complaints, or how it fits into the broader product line, or is a response to competition -- all of which is much more valuable than anything in a press release.

This is a weird gray area where although Twitter/X is the canonical source for many announcements, users don't upvote them unless it's from a more respected domain. (and often with a more informative title)

It’s not about respect for the domain, it’s the fact that the website is outright broken and I cannot view the content that was linked to.

It was the case well before Elon acquired it.

Press releases are basically just advertisements.

Sure, but that’s what journalists do - verge articles are just repeats of the original source with nothing added other than a clickbait headline and larger images.