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Ask HN: Why do some posts on HN not have a user/submitter?
2 points by rishikeshs 18 hours ago | 7 comments
Example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43303463
mtmail 17 hours 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
rishikeshs 17 hours ago
This is so weird! So this was the whole point of HN! A funnel!
satvikpendem 56 minutes ago
What domain do you think you're on when you visit HN?
mtmail 17 hours ago
YCombinator 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.
Jtsummers 17 hours ago
That's an ad. Also note that you cannot comment on them, which is abnormal except for [dead] submissions and older submissions.
rishikeshs 17 hours ago
Yes! Its weird. Who posts these?
Jtsummers 17 hours ago
This forum is hosted by a company called Y Combinator, they are a VC firm. Those ads are for YC companies.