Well one of the very early reports/blog/information appeared on HN. A search on that day would possibly find the original source or more likely the "new" category report on HN. What i think then happened, is that various news services picked up the story and modified it enough to claim "fair usage". Trouble is most of these secondary reports were not complete because they had been modified and cut down, no comments taken into account.
Like most news services, they were not letting any facts get in the way of a good story.
Now the bloggers and social media picked it up from the news reports and added to the mix without ever needing to be complete or even close to the original.
These people have lots of followers and make money from advertising so don't really care about truth or authenticity, its all about clicks. No time stamping either.
Now when you do a search with most search engines you are hard pressed to find the original story much less any accurate or complete 'children" of that original post.
The search engines with their advertising maximizing value algorithmic results at the expense of "truth" or "real" or "complete" alter results we are looking for. This ensures the original source on the web has been replaced by a poor, usually inaccurate, and sometimes completely wrong sources.
The enshitification net is now complete.
(I don't think HN is at fault, but like google/bing/amazom/microsoft, HN finds itself as a web influencer its its own right)
