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At first I thought it was on hacker news because the article was auto-generated by software (a "Show HN"), but actually, it appears to be written by a real pers

At first I thought it was on hacker news because the article was auto-generated by software (a "Show HN"), but actually, it appears to be written by a real person. Welcome to journalism in the era of dying newspapers, I guess.

ryanSrich 11y ago
It's on HN because Your Mechanic is a YC company. A lot of readers blindly upvote anything YC related.
- eterm 11y ago
  HN is very opaque about how it ranks articles, I suspect that it's not only blind upvoting. If you look how articles move on hnranking, some move more naturally than others. This story in particular has a couple of very large boosts: http://hnrankings.info/11469285/ http://hnrankings.info/11469285/
- delinka 11y ago
  Do people memorize the YC company list? Are there enough that do and just instantly click 'upvote?'
  - gohrt 11y ago
    HN has computers for that.
  - ryanSrich 11y ago
    YC is pretty huge now with over 1000 companies they've invested in. That's a lot of people involved. A lot of people that are in the same classes, meetings, dinners, etc. All of those people read HN.