Google pr is doing a great job with the go language. Every day 2-3 stories is always highly rated on a language not many people outside google cares about. Time to hellban som accounts maybe?
Unlike Java or C# or some other languages, there's basically no monetization path for Google from Go. They don't sell a Go compiler or IDE or anything like that. The whole this is open source and free. Go for them is a project aimed at solving their own problems, and if it solves yours too, so be it. With that in mind, your theory doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
As one of the people who does upvote the Go stories and has posted one myself, I think the real reason you see this is Go is an incredibly fun language to learn (at least if you're already a programmer, I can't speak for true neophytes) and the design of both the language and the API remind you about how much complexity you can get out of combining a few simple concepts. After years of dealing with other people's 1000 line FactoryOfFactoriesFactory classes in Java, such simplicity is incredibly refreshing and it is difficult not to try to direct other programmers into taking a look.
IMO there's a lot of benefit to playing around with Go even if you end up not using it as a primary language and thus I plan to continue evangelizing it.
Ironically there is someone creating new accounts and trolling each of the Go posts. Last time it was someone spewing inconsistent lies about the Go build system.
My money is on the 0xABADC0DA doing it. An obsession with Google's relationship with Go and thinking that google employees were gaming HN to push Go was kind of his MO. Really quite obnoxious, I don't know who he thought his audience was.
