At the risk of fulfilling the "HN loves tesla" stereotype, I find it really difficult to take seriously an article that begins with a photo that was very clearly chosen to be unflattering, captioned "Overlord". That kind of flagrant skew poisons the credibility of everything else around it.
They like to be snarky, and then whine about being excluded from press events by firms they've been snarky about. See their reporters rant about Apple PR after spending years slagging on Apple PR folks all the way back to 2007. After They hammer on Elon Musk, post odd photos and captions, they will be incredulous that they don't get a press credential to the next Tesla event.