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Third post about oxide/it's founders in the top 5? Either HN loves marketing spiels or the founders have a passionate upvoting cartel, propping up the exact same non-informative marketing in 3 different posts.

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Please don't break the site guidelines by insinuating cartels and whatnot: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

What's different today is that I got a late start, then got sucked into moderating flamewars, and only just noticed the duplication on the front page. Will merge the threads shortly.

It's because of whom the founders are. Jessie Frazelle was a major engineer in containers and a frequent talk giver. Steve Tuck was President and COO of Joyent. Bryan Cantrill is the former CTO of Joyent and co-creater of Dtrace. To many in the HN community those are impressive credentials. Added to that is that many people here have worked with one of those three or at the very least listened to at least one of their talks.

Cantrill is also, if not a frequent presenter, a high profile one. He has an odd mix of insightful observations peppered with highly inappropriate (but amusing) speculations about Larry Ellison's membership in the Nazi Party.

The privilege of networking. Yes, you can be the author and maintainer of great things, but not every great author of things receives the same amount of praise and good wishes in such a short amount of time. In fact, a lot of them even more significant never receive the same amount of praise.

Probably the same privilege some complain about other groups of people have, but nonetheless it's usually an effective strategy to build up a good network of people looking over your projects.

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