I think they'd be indifferent -- the amounts are so small; and the hn bot only comes in pretty late in the game.  If they cared, they have ample opportunity to post their own stuff here.

elvismercury

bitcoin

Taking the ETF temperature on Hacker News

I still wonder what HN users think about @hn if they knew (I assume they don't). Would they be surprised to see how much @hn stacked simply by posting HN stories here? Would they feel robbed? Would they start to get interested?

But well, the offer still stands that HN OPs can claim the sats that @hn stacked on their behalf.