Some of the votes were fraudulent. That's not ok on HN and not a good way to promote good work.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

can you tell me what votes were fraudulent? And what can I do to prevent it in the future? God bless @dang

Ugh, just admit it if you did it, or say nothing. This post I'm responding to comes across badly. I'm sure no unaffiliated-with-you vote fraud bots were swarming to upvote your particular random article, so common sense says there's about a 99.9% chance if there was HN vote fraud, it was the person who stands to gain from the fraud doing it.

I doubt dang is going to walk you through how they detected it either. No need to make people's fraud easier in the future.

Just take your licks and move on.