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Comment by lquist | Hacker News Reader

Priceonomics is a YC company and I believe that posts by YC companies are highlighted to other YC founders, so that might be what leads to this article being upvoted on HN. I agree that it doesn’t make much sense when this is essentially content marketing that repackages a single, superior, primary source.

Edit/Update: I was incorrect here. Please see children comments

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That's fascinating, I had no idea HN did this to specific users. I'm still wondering what the site looks like for a moderator / admin compared to a regular user and what kind of pages they've got etc.

All that's highlighted for YC founders are the nicknames of other founders. So we can see which posts and comments are from other YC founders, but there's no special annotation just for posts at YC-funded domains (in this case, there's nothing highlighted).

Fair and insightful I would say, when the parent comment mentioned it I figured it checked for the domain of a YC company or something, but this makes sense, as filtering for YC companies might just be a bit more work than it's worth considering you wont always be able to accurately mark every submission as relevant.

I believe the goal is explicitly not to skew things towards YC companies. The one special bonus that YC companies get is the ability to post job openings. The two posts from YC founders on the front page now aren't about startups at all.

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