[dang]

I flagged some (most? not sure) of them as booster comments, presumably by friends trying to help the submitters out. HN users aren't supposed to do that and YC founders are given strict instructions not to do it (and scoldings when it happens), but it's impossible to prevent completely. People's friends try to "help" them and don't realize that it's actually the opposite of helping.

See the "Comments" section of the Launch HN instructions for YC startups (https://news.ycombinator.com/yli.html) for an example of how strongly we emphasize this.