Sure if you can pull that kind of traffic to your content day in day out you can make a good return from Amazon affiliate links, the reality is though, this is

Sure if you can pull that kind of traffic to your content day in day out you can make a good return from Amazon affiliate links, the reality is though, this is unlikely to happen. What I look for in products to promote is something more like a $10 average commission per transaction and a conversion of more like 8-10%. Promoting of the kind done in this post only really works as an aside if you were going to mention these products anyway. While much less invasive than AdSense in general the same amount of traffic would make you more (although probably not in this case given the large proportion of HN/Reddit traffic that are either blocking of ignoring AdSense).