That's absolutely true.

But

They have leaked real things in the past, in exactly the same way. It may be 5% or less that turn out to be true, but there's the rub. That's why no one can completely dismiss it out of hand (and why were even discussing it on an HN comment thread in the first place).

I assure you, I can (and did) dismiss it out of hand. 4chan shitposting is not credible.

The scary thing is that it is more internally consistent than quite a bit of the stuff on HN over the last couple of days.

War Thunder Forums on the other hand? That's a completely different story.

How soon we forget that QAnon (the guy, not the movement associated with the guy) was a 4chan shitposter... and obviously all of his predictions came true :P

I'm almost 90% positive that was 8chan, not 4chan.

Started on 4chan /pol/, moved to 8chan on a couple of boards iirc