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> Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.
by politelemon 2y ago
> Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.
- Sabinus 2y agoI think it's unlikely Walmart is advertising on HN.
- red-iron-pine 2y agowalmart is the largest company in the world and will have tentacles in bloody everything, likely through 3rd party marketers and a whole lot of automation. entirely possible that other ad companies flagged HN as a juicy target for selling Apple products, and that ended up on a large, weighted list of marketing targets. awful lot of tech-bro programmers on HN. lower priority means just a couple of posters / AI bots, instead of a full-court press with dozens of well crafted accounts posting long responses.