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I'm pretty sure that these are submitted as part of a marketing strategy for these sites (free advertising). Step 1: publish a story. Step 2: submit it to HN (

I'm pretty sure that these are submitted as part of a marketing strategy for these sites (free advertising). Step 1: publish a story. Step 2: submit it to HN (and Reddit, and FB, etc.). They don't care about the community.

minimaxir 9y ago
The amount of traffic HN provides is insignificant to these companies.