Ask HN: Is Hacker News showing me ads?

Posted by yogodojo on Saturday July 25, 2020 @08:48AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I've something like this article pop up time and again: "Flexport is hiring engineers around the world". It seems that the ability to comment and upvote is also disabled on such a post.

Which begs the question: is this an advertisement?

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Re:Ask HN: Is Hacker News showing me ads? by gus_massa on Saturday July 25, 2020 @08:55AM (#23948831)

Yes, but it is only available to YC companies.

From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

> 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, then fall steadily, and only one should be on the front page at a time.

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Re:Ask HN: Is Hacker News showing me ads? by viraptor on Saturday July 25, 2020 @08:55AM (#23948830)

In a way... Yes. https://news.ycombinator.com/jobs

It's also described plainly in the FAQ https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

No conspiracy here.

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Re:Ask HN: Is Hacker News showing me ads? by magnusmagnusson on Saturday July 25, 2020 @08:54AM (#23948818)

There's a lot of links here that works as advertising. Likely majority of.

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