Sam hasn't been at YC in years and (based on anything I've seen) isn't active in YC at all. As for "YC encourages good CEO-community relations", I have no idea what that means* but it has nothing to do with HN. We encourage good content-community relations and that's it.

You have a long history of posting dark insinuations about YC/HN, not to mention nagging the mods about how bad we are and how much better you yourself have done the job in the past. I mostly let the latter go, but when you start with the ethical insinuations, that gets my dander up. It's time you stopped smearing people's reputations on HN. If you have evidence of wrongdoing, post it—I'm sure the community will be extremely interested. If you have no evidence, please stop from now on.

(Edit: I realize it probably sounds like I'm over-reacting to the parent comment, but this has been a longstanding pattern. We can cut people slack for years, but not infinitely.)

OpenAI stuff and Stable Diffusion stuff (and DeepMind stuff for that matter) are all popular on HN because the community is super interested—that's literally it. We're not pulling strings or playing favorites (we don't even have favorites in that horserace, at least I don't). As a matter of fact, the last thing I did before randomly running across your comment was downweight the current thread because of the complaints at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32665587.

* unless you mean that we advise founders about how to write content that actually interests the community—that we do, and not only YC founders but non-YC founders, open source programmers, bloggers, and anyone else. That's all a consequence of wanting HN to have good content and seeking to avoid the boring stuff. By the way, I'm working on an essay about how to write good for HN and avoid boring stuff too; if anyone would like to read it, email me at [email protected] and I'll send you a copy.