Ask HN: Mysterious hacker news post

1 pointtitusblair5 comments

Just saw this post on HN and don’t see someone associated with it. I normally see a username any ideas why this one does not have one?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16763172

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That's a job ad.

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

"The other 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."

It’s just strange there is no user associated with it. Never saw this before so I was curious.

Unsure why it is not visible in the HTML; the contributor is visible in the API response: https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/16763172.json?pri...

I found that interesting myself

The post doesn't show up in the user's list of submissions https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=thedogeye Those ads must be quite an exception (hack?) in the HN system.

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