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by dang 1453 days ago
It's because they're favored by the HN community. Few startups manage to achieve this 'darling' status on HN.

I wrote about this phenomenon here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30070287 - in the bottom third of the comment, starting with "Stripe succeeded on HN". (Skip the tedious stuff before that.)