From what I can tell: The founder of Pinboard (Maciej, HN user idlewords) applied to "Apply HN". The application was (probably) done a bit tongue in cheek and ironically, because (as I understand it) he's had interesting previous interactions with YC and has posted some "anti-Paul Graham" blog posts
BUT, he "won" ApplyHN with more than double the votes of the next runner up:
However, he was not selected and there was this post to the winner's announcement yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11633278 making it appear there was some bias involved.
BUT, he "won" ApplyHN with more than double the votes of the next runner up:
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22apply%20hn%22&sort=byPopula...
However, he was not selected and there was this post to the winner's announcement yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11633278 making it appear there was some bias involved.
FWIW, Pinboard is awesome.