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IBM

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IBM

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Discussed in relation to moat observed

fresh · evidence today 17 sources no confidence data
/100
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momentum / 100
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eng openings

Composite signal v0 insufficient evidence — 1 of 5 components

Five evidence lanes (activity, capital, infra, hiring, ecosystem) as within-cohort percentiles, combined with evidence-breadth weights over the 60-company baseline cohort. The ± band widens with missing lanes — it measures what the score stands on. Scores publish at 2+ evidence lanes; this company's tape carries 1 (20 signals/60d), so no number is claimed.

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Capital timeline every dated signal, across tiers

  1. rumor IBM to acquire Confluent ↗
  2. rumor IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp ↗
  3. rumor IBM to Acquire HashiCorp, Inc for $6.4 billion ↗
  4. rumor IBM Closes Acquisition of Red Hat for $34B ↗
  5. rumor IBM acquires Red Hat ↗
  6. rumor Layoffs at Watson Health Reveal IBM’s Problem with AI ↗
  7. rumor Reports Coming in of Big IBM Layoffs Underway in the U.S. ↗

Community chatter Hacker News · Tier 3 · unverified manip. risk high · 0.5

Gray-market attention, not quality. 50+ HN mentions (peak 2611 points). Claim-shaped headlines are rumors until corroborated — a Tier-3 factual claim carries no evidentiary weight on its own. Risk drivers: heavy gray-market attention · no primary-source corroboration. ▲ 2611 IBM acquires Red Hat 2018-10-28 ↗

Raw observations 38 records
AttributeValueKindSourceObservedStateConf.
common_name IBM observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-18 normalized 0.60
community.hn.max_points 2611 observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-18 normalized 0.20
community.hn.mentions 50 observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-18 normalized 0.20
community.hn.rumors [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18321884", "title": "IBM acquires Red Hat", "points": 2611, "created_at": "2018-10-28", "evidence_type": "rumor", "verification_status": "unverified"}, { observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-18 superseded 0.20
community.hn.rumors [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18321884", "title": "IBM acquires Red Hat", "points": 2611, "created_at": "2018-10-28", "evidence_type": "rumor", "verification_status": "unverified"}, { observed artifact ↗ 2026-08-16 superseded 0.20
community.hn.rumors [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18321884", "title": "IBM acquires Red Hat", "points": 2611, "created_at": "2018-10-28", "evidence_type": "rumor", "verification_status": "unverified"}, { observed artifact ↗ 2025-12-08 superseded 0.20
community.hn.rumors [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18321884", "title": "IBM acquires Red Hat", "points": 2611, "created_at": "2018-10-28", "evidence_type": "rumor", "verification_status": "unverified"}, { observed artifact ↗ 2025-12-08 superseded 0.20
community.hn.rumors [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18321884", "title": "IBM acquires Red Hat", "points": 2611, "created_at": "2018-10-28", "evidence_type": "rumor", "verification_status": "unverified"}, { observed artifact ↗ 2025-12-08 superseded 0.20
community.hn.rumors [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18321884", "title": "IBM acquires Red Hat", "points": 2611, "created_at": "2018-10-28", "evidence_type": "rumor", "verification_status": "unverified"}, { observed artifact ↗ 2025-12-08 normalized 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18321884", "title": "IBM acquires Red Hat", "points": 2611, "created_at": "2018-10-28"} observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-18 superseded 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18321884", "title": "IBM acquires Red Hat", "points": 2611, "created_at": "2018-10-28"} observed artifact ↗ 2026-08-16 superseded 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18321884", "title": "IBM acquires Red Hat", "points": 2611, "created_at": "2018-10-28"} observed artifact ↗ 2018-10-28 superseded 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18321884", "title": "IBM acquires Red Hat", "points": 2611, "created_at": "2018-10-28"} observed artifact ↗ 2018-10-28 superseded 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18321884", "title": "IBM acquires Red Hat", "points": 2611, "created_at": "2018-10-28"} observed artifact ↗ 2018-10-28 superseded 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18321884", "title": "IBM acquires Red Hat", "points": 2611, "created_at": "2018-10-28"} observed artifact ↗ 2018-10-28 normalized 0.20
description Discussed in relation to moat observed artifact ↗ 2026-07-18 normalized 0.60
index.ai_tie BLUE_CHIP observed classify 2026-07-25 derived 0.60
sector emerging derived calc 2026-08-08 normalized 0.50
signal.commentary {"context": null, "run_ref": "01KXXTHZ8QT0NSKQHF4NAV60FW", "signals": [{"quote": "ibm is selling quantum computers people are selling time in the quantum computers", "stance": "neutral", "signal_class observed artifact ↗ 2025-10-27 promoted 0.50
signal.commentary {"context": null, "run_ref": "01KYH7V94YZWEA03A5PVS1RW39", "signals": [{"quote": "I don't think so. Yeah, look, I mean, it's such a slippery slope and there's too much room for interpretation. I'm jus observed artifact ↗ 2020-06-20 promoted 0.50
signal.commentary {"context": null, "run_ref": "01KYH7V94YZWEA03A5PVS1RW39", "signals": [{"quote": "One is that the Twitter product is still relatively brittle. I mean, like, Facebook has a whole suite of emoticons to observed artifact ↗ 2020-06-20 promoted 0.50
signal.commentary {"context": null, "run_ref": "01KYH7V94YZWEA03A5PVS1RW39", "signals": [{"quote": "I think basically that Facebook is becoming middle America and Twitter is becoming sort of the coasts. ... Facebook is observed artifact ↗ 2020-06-20 promoted 0.50
signal.commentary {"context": null, "run_ref": "01KYH7V94YZWEA03A5PVS1RW39", "signals": [{"quote": "What is Facebook's issue two days ago? It was that, you know, the boogaloo movement, which is, you know, a bunch of pe observed artifact ↗ 2020-06-20 promoted 0.50
signal.commentary {"context": null, "run_ref": "01KZXVEG6PAM5KNY25H4JNHBWZ", "signals": [{"quote": "you couldn't make an IBM, uh, compatible computer without MS DOS.", "stance": "neutral", "signal_class": "fact_claim", observed artifact ↗ 2021-09-29 promoted 0.50
signal.commentary {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M05WA3X018EBH5DFNDBT4R27", "signals": [{"quote": "i think the best trade on the best trade on the internet the most obvious simple money-making trade is long microsoft observed artifact ↗ 2021-11-06 promoted 0.50
signal.commentary {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M082ZGRMF3D38E3C08931PFQ", "signals": [{"quote": "microsoft and ibm were in fact uh disrupted by google and amazon", "stance": "bearish", "signal_class": "fact_claim", observed artifact ↗ 2021-07-14 promoted 0.50
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