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.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.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.