HN is absolutely rife with shills -- by design to some degree, it's a startup-focused site, and that means talking about and pushing your org. but now it's own

HN is absolutely rife with shills -- by design to some degree, it's a startup-focused site, and that means talking about and pushing your org. but now it's owned hard by other bots, and for a site that discussed GPT before it was cool it has little protection from the bots. and, in general, agit-prop bot, esp. here, reddit, slashdot, etc. is through the roof