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Yes, when this came up about 9 months ago, 'dang acknowledged that they occasionally manually promote stories: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8313505

Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8122290

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Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9086614 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8790134.