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Re:Show HN: Canteen – Hire Engineers 10× Faster, at Half the... by dang on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @10:37PM (#45270968)
Of course I believe you that they aren't bots, but it's against HN's rules to have friends show up to upvote and comment like this. It comes across as astroturfing, and HN's community (as you've no doubt noticed) is zealous in defending itself against this.

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

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

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Re:Show HN: Canteen – Hire Engineers 10× Faster, at Half the... by andyprevalsky on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @10:52AM (#45276561)
Yea I saw those rules a little too late after posting , that’s mb
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Re:Show HN: Canteen – Hire Engineers 10× Faster, at Half the... by AllyRectangle on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @11:11AM (#45276814)
I'm curious how this is any different from what every startup does when they launch and ask their employees/customers/friends to like and share their posts: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/martykausas_we-built-a-clickf...
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Re:Show HN: Canteen – Hire Engineers 10× Faster, at Half the... by dang on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @12:02PM (#45277498)
It's no different.
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