Official comment from HN on dead threads
We're assuming these are fake, and that someone just got hold of their Facebook and Twitter passwords.<p>On the other hand, I notice the same statement has appeared on their blog.  So maybe it's real.  Or maybe their blog was compromised too.<p>The really suspicious thing is that they don't seem to have confirmed it to a reporter yet, which presumably they'd be willing to do if they were so eager to spread the news that they tweeted about it.