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Ask HN: Is Hacker News showing me ads?
I've something like this article pop up time and again: "Flexport is hiring engineers around the world". It seems that the ability to comment and upvote is also disabled on such a post.
Which begs the question: is this an advertisement?
- magnusmagnusson 6y agoThere's a lot of links here that works as advertising. Likely majority of.
- Pompidou 6y agoI agree with you. And its very boring. What was striking some weeks ago there was the amountof apple related posts. Totally useless , I mean HN is far beyond hardware circlejerking.
- viraptor 6y agoIn a way... Yes. https://news.ycombinator.com/jobs https://news.ycombinator.com/jobs It's also described plainly in the FAQ https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html No conspiracy here.
- gus_massa 6y agoYes, but it is only available to YC companies. From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html > Another kind of job ad is reserved for YC-funded startups. These appear on the front page, but are not stories: they have no vote arrows, points, or comments. They begin part-way down, then fall steadily, and only one should be on the front page at a time.