It looks like something changed 5 months ago. There were a series of futurism.com articles submitted by new users who then went on to submit a string of suspic

It looks like something changed 5 months ago. There were a series of futurism.com articles submitted by new users who then went on to submit a string of suspicious Github links. I'm guessing futurism.com was banned for being associated with that. It's possible they (or one of their marketers) were actually involved, or it's possible they were just an innocent bystander being used as cover. Either way, you have a better chance of getting an answer if you ask Dan by email (hn@ycombinator.com).