[pmachinery]

There are probably several laws against it, relating to copyright or trademark violations and/or falsely implying affiliation or endorsement.

I wouldn't be surprised if the logos are just on the template though, and the 'developer' is too thick/lazy to remove them. That's not an excuse, in fact it just shows them at best to be careless amateurs who shouldn't be trusted, if not malicious scammers who shouldn't be trusted.

I've come to not trust anything on HN that says "X reached Y users in Z days" though. When you check other submissions from the poster you usually find they've been spamming HN, and if they're spamming HN they're spamming other sites, which would explain the new Y users, if they're not just lying about it.

Either way, avoid.