Please don't insinuate shillage on HN without objective evidence. This is in the site guidelines:
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. The reason it's in the site guidelines is that the overwhelming majority of these perceptions are imaginary, despite how convincing they feel. Plenty of past explanations at
https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme..., for those who want more.