Yeah really. Great counterexample to the people here who claim that HN voting is primarily about the content of the article. The TechCrunch article had a better headline, broader readership in the HN crowd, and a more techy URL ... so it pulled in the votes.

Agreed, another example of a larger tech blog picking up on reporting done by somebody else and garnering most of the attention/upvotes. The TC article had no real value-add on top of the reporting that Dan Lyons did, but it has more name-recognition on HN so apparently gets to lead the story. Frustrating!