I'd guess it's on the HN front page because people were curious about someone who could afford to spend 6 million dollars on ads in a single year. My first tho

I'd guess it's on the HN front page because people were curious about someone who could afford to spend 6 million dollars on ads in a single year. My first thought was not "I was in charge of spending my employer's money on ads", it was "I was spending my money on ads".