If each of one's blog posts is upvoted to the top at HN for unknown reasons, that may be true. If you are in the right clique and do minor work in an open sour

If each of one's blog posts is upvoted to the top at HN for unknown reasons, that may be true. If you are in the right clique and do minor work in an open source project, that may also be true, as long as you go along with the correct politics. So in that sense the title is correct and describes the sad world we live in.