HN used to see a lot more submissions from them, but it’s slowed down considerably since their zombification; I’m not sure whether the shotgun approach to stories is what earns them the occasional chart-topper here, but two of the most-discussed Quartz stories ever (if Algolia is of any validity anyways) followed that AI conversion, which either indicates growth in HN participation over time and/or a continued interest in their largely-AI writing. If anyone has an HN replica database handy, qz.com count and upvotes normalized against site wide post count and upvotes per day would be very interesting to consider here.
altairprime•48m ago
What was Quartz? (18 months ago, 64 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43616604
The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs (16 months ago, 948 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44180533
Submissions of Quartz links (4 months, 30 links) https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=qz.com