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If you have enough karma there's a "flag" button, but I don't see any reason to flag PR pieces that have useful information in them

Well, it's "useful" to know the FCC actually approved this, but it's at the barest end of that. But this piece doesn't include even the barest of technical details.

If it included things like which band (5GHz), what power (claimed to be 4 watts at 5 feet--how does that get by FCC?), or any other technological point, I probably wouldn't be so annoyed.

As it stands, this is quite obviously a stock pump PR piece, and this company has a history of doing this since at least 2014.

I do have a flag button, but I normally reserve that for things which are ferociously offensive rather than just scummy.

As with any submission you think is not appropriate for HN, use "flag".

Start by not assuming that the poster is endorsing it; maybe they just want to share something relevant and stupid being spread around. Maybe it’s a discussion piece, centered on the flaws in the piece.