[krapp]

Yes. Many wannabe entrepreneurs come here hoping to gain "street cred" and get their "insightful" comments and projects noticed by YC, hoping to parlay that into funding or hoping a launch on HN will do for them what it did for others (like Dropbox.) Believe it or not Hacker News is serious business, there's a reason the staff is so guarded about releasing any code or hints about their algorithm that could be gamed.