The relationship between YC/HN and TC goes back pretty far as part of a collusory pipeline for media attention around startup launch and funding announcements.

The relationship between YC/HN and TC goes back pretty far as part of a collusory pipeline for media attention around startup launch and funding announcements. Not sure how that's changed since TC's decline over recent years (which is why I imagine YC invested in ProductHunt), but there are possibly still some artifacts of a relationship there that might prevent this.