Ask HN: Is Hacker News showing me ads?

#1

Post by yogodojo » Sat, Jul 25, 2020, 12:48 PM UTC

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?

Re: Ask HN: Is Hacker News showing me ads?

#2

Post by magnusmagnusson » Sat, Jul 25, 2020, 12:54 PM UTC

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

Re: Ask HN: Is Hacker News showing me ads?

#3

Post by viraptor » Sat, Jul 25, 2020, 12:55 PM UTC

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.

Re: Ask HN: Is Hacker News showing me ads?

#4

Post by gus_massa » Sat, Jul 25, 2020, 12:55 PM UTC

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.

Re: Ask HN: Is Hacker News showing me ads?

#5

Post by Pompidou » Sat, Jul 25, 2020, 4:39 PM UTC

magnusmagnusson wrote: post #2

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

I agree with you. And its very boring. What was striking some weeks ago there was the amountof apple related posts. Totally useless , I mean HN is far beyond hardware circlejerking.