This link will make you less informed, because it is adding narrative (crypto firms teetering!) to a bland story (the economic damage from the COVID response is serious). I think someone needs to be proactive and point out that this is useless. If this was Crypto News then sure.
This may as well be a Tweet telling us that Powered Brands went bankrupt. Whoever they are, I just searched for "bankruptcies 2023". If this one matters, then someone will have to write a blog post explaining why and we can all read that instead and learn something.
There's an upvote feature on HN exactly for burying stories that are irrelevant. If enough people have voted this to the front page, it simply means that enough people find it relevant. If it's not relevant to you, you can just ignore it.
2) I refuse to downvote anything except comments that include "I'm going to get downvoted for this...". The signal is too noisy to figure out what a downvote means.
This may as well be a Tweet telling us that Powered Brands went bankrupt. Whoever they are, I just searched for "bankruptcies 2023". If this one matters, then someone will have to write a blog post explaining why and we can all read that instead and learn something.