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Since when is an advertisement "Hacker News"? I stopped reading slashdot regularly when this started happening there...

• straight_talk_2 13y ago
  Not an advertisement, but a price list full of technical information.
  • sliverstorm 13y ago
    Just read the title. Clearly ad.
  • fredsanford 13y ago
    AKA an advertisement.
• cynicalkane 13y ago
  Since a sufficient number of people decided it was worth upvoting this item.
• pavs 13y ago
  You mean like every time there is price update announcement for AWS or linode, or the next android or apple product announcement?
• benologist 13y ago
  Every time AWS blogs and an Amazon employee submits it. Every time the YC network artificially pushes each other to the front page or posts a job. Every time some startup writes about random startup shit completely unrelated to whatever they're selling just to pull traffic from HN. Every time publications including ITWorld, ExtremeTech, Geek, MacObserver, DailyDot, BetaBeat, etc, have had undisclosed employees shilling their links.
• SimHacker 13y ago
  I'd much rather hear what Hacker News readers have to say about hosting providers that what Slashdot readers have to say. That's why I upvoted the conversation. That's how I learned about Hetzner in the first place, and I'm happy I got a server there. Don't need to upgrade yet, but it's nice to hear what sensible people think of their latest offerings.