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Comment by mrguyorama

2 hours ago

Are you aware that people who are part of Ycombinator, as in "founders", have special HN accounts, and are able to see who else has a financial incentive to hype up startups and YC and insist there is nothing wrong with them funding multiple companies that literally plagiarize each other or just slap a logo on top of VSCode hooked up to ChatGPT, or other people that are literally personal friends and collaborators with Elon?

What else do you call such a secret in group who all have aligned financial interests and are externally anonymous?

YC sells this feature as an advantage of being funded by YC.

That's not what I asked. I asked:

> There are known groups that coordinate to flag things on HN?

Your response is unrelated to my question.