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Ask HN: Why do some posts on HN not have a user/submitter?
Example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43303463
- Jtsummers 2y agoThat's an ad. Also note that you cannot comment on them, which is abnormal except for [dead] submissions and older submissions.
- rishikeshs 2y agoYes! Its weird. Who posts these?
- Jtsummers 2y agoThis forum is hosted by a company called Y Combinator, they are a VC firm. Those ads are for YC companies. https://www.ycombinator.com https://www.ycombinator.com
- mtmail 2y ago"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 and fall steadily. Only one is on the front page at a time." quoted from https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
- rishikeshs 2y agoThis is so weird! So this was the whole point of HN! A funnel!
- mtmail 2y agoYCombinator pays for servers and full-time staff. It's job ads for companies they invested it, the companies don't need to pay anything. HN is a big side-project not meant to be profitable.
- satvikpendem 2y agoWhat domain do you think you're on when you visit HN?