oh, I see. Well, whomever linked you to the page had a referral link attached. Reddit has the problem quite frequently, people will submit referral links under

oh, I see. Well, whomever linked you to the page had a referral link attached. Reddit has the problem quite frequently, people will submit referral links under the guise of the content being "interesting" or having some value to users and then it becomes a game of "is this person genuine or are they looking to make money?". Ultimately it doesn't really matter that much and you're a long standing HN user (didn't notice it was you who submitted this...) so deleting it would probably be overkill, just might make a few people apprehensive about being gamed. People share their blog entries and companies and products here all the time to make money and that's fine but I figure that's because it's transparent whereas referral links (where the person intentionally used it) are trying to make money without admitting it. "I made this product..." vs. "This product looks amazing, what do you think?" the latter is misleading when (intentional) referral links are involved, because I don't assume by default the person presenting it is in it for the money.