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		pg on Jan 8, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask PG: Why don’t you open source HN? No there aren't. YC founders' userids show up in orange to one another, and there is a page where they can see one anothers' submissions. There are no mechanisms to "boost" stories submitted by YC founders, nor does the voting ring detector discriminate.

zmitri on Jan 8, 2013 [–]

To me that sounds like a mechanism to help boost. Not automatically, but definitely an advantage.

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