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Is Triplebyte paying for product placement here now? They've taken over Reddit.

dang 7y ago
Nobody pays for or gets product placement on HN. You have to make something readers find interesting. I assume that's the case with the current submission, since it hasn't been affected by moderators or by any of the below. We do sometimes place stories that we or a small number of story reviewers think the community might like. That program is described at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380 and the links back from there. Such stories get lobbed by software randomly onto the bottom half of the front page, whence they fall off in a few minutes unless people upvote them. The purpose is to make HN more interesting (because https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20curiosity%20optimiz&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...). Many good submissions fall through the cracks and this is a way to give some a second crack. Anyone who knows of a story that deserves a second chance like this should email us at hn@ycombinator.com and we'll consider throwing it in that pool. It's ok to ask this for one of your own stories, but it's better if you just ran across something and think it's cool. By the way, you can see a partial list of these at https://news.ycombinator.com/invited https://news.ycombinator.com/invited. Those are the ones that were too old to be lobbed directly when we saw them, so we emailed the submitter and invited them to repost it instead. It's on my list to publish a more comprehensive set of lobbed stories. There are two other types of placed submission that HN does as a way to give back to YC for funding this place: job ads (https://news.ycombinator.com/jobs https://news.ycombinator.com/jobs) and Launch HNs for startups (https://news.ycombinator.com/launches https://news.ycombinator.com/launches).
- dredmorbius 7y ago
  This (or an abstract of it) might make a good FAQ addition: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
  - dang 7y ago
    Yes, it's probably time to add that.

dang 7y ago

Nobody pays for or gets product placement on HN. You have to make something readers find interesting. I assume that's the case with the current submission, since it hasn't been affected by moderators or by any of the below. We do sometimes place stories that we or a small number of story reviewers think the community might like. That program is described at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380 and the links back from there. Such stories get lobbed by software randomly onto the bottom half of the front page, whence they fall off in a few minutes unless people upvote them. The purpose is to make HN more interesting (because https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20curiosity%20optimiz&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...). Many good submissions fall through the cracks and this is a way to give some a second crack. Anyone who knows of a story that deserves a second chance like this should email us at hn@ycombinator.com and we'll consider throwing it in that pool. It's ok to ask this for one of your own stories, but it's better if you just ran across something and think it's cool. By the way, you can see a partial list of these at https://news.ycombinator.com/invited https://news.ycombinator.com/invited. Those are the ones that were too old to be lobbed directly when we saw them, so we emailed the submitter and invited them to repost it instead. It's on my list to publish a more comprehensive set of lobbed stories. There are two other types of placed submission that HN does as a way to give back to YC for funding this place: job ads (https://news.ycombinator.com/jobs https://news.ycombinator.com/jobs) and Launch HNs for startups (https://news.ycombinator.com/launches https://news.ycombinator.com/launches).

dredmorbius 7y ago
This (or an abstract of it) might make a good FAQ addition: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
- dang 7y ago
  Yes, it's probably time to add that.