If you're implying that we did something to boost this post because Gitlab is a YC startup, we didn't. Matter of fact we penalized it as unsubstantive.

There's a standard moderation penalty for submissions whose only content is rallying users to some cause or event, since (however good the cause) that isn't intellectually interesting.

Thanks for giving it a penalty, I agree it isn't intellectually interesting and it doesn't belong on the HN frontpage.