Likely they have whitelisted domaine names that go straight to the home page. Would make sense to put all Y combinator ex and new startup sites.

Marketting is a major goal of HN after all.

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dewey 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Or the simpler explanation (which is probably closer to the truth): Stripe is a very popular company on HN as many people use them, their founders sometimes comment here and if they share their opinion on something people pay attention and upvote it.

	▲	nullstyle 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Or the even simpler explanation, that whenever Stripe posts a blog post, they have nine or 10 employees waiting to upvote it the moment it goes live.

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handfuloflight 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

your absolut lee r8