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Yeah I just dropped a comment about this on another thread. There's 8 links on the front page about AWS submitted by the same two people. 19 AWS posts submitted
by vdnkh 10y ago
Yeah I just dropped a comment about this on another thread. There's 8 links on the front page about AWS submitted by the same two people. 19 AWS posts submitted in the past 24 hours. It looks like a concerted shilling effort.
- andrewguenther 10y agohttps://reinvent.awsevents.com/ https://reinvent.awsevents.com/ Nope, just a conference.
- openasocket 10y agoIt's re:Invent: a big Amazon conference where they announce a lot of their new changes. You can find a livestream of the keynote currently going on.
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- ranman 10y agoFWIW those were not submitted by AWS employees (to my knowledge) -- we're not trying to take over HN. (I WORK FOR AMAZON)
- AtheistOfFail 10y ago> we're not Caught them, Amazon trying to take over HN. All Hands, Abandon Ship.
- Jtsummers 10y agoNo need to accuse anyone of shilling. When there's a surge like this (as others have pointed out) it typically corresponds to major events like conferences or major releases. Additionally, while this is tied to re:Invent, other situations like this are where I see post A, that leads me to article B, I post it. Now there are two related posts. A dozen people do the same thing, readers of the front page are already primed to be interested in that topic, so we get a bunch of correlated content just by the way HN and social link sharing systems work.