I noticed that posts that have many upvotes but nearly 0 comments are always ads or scams of some kind.

@dang perhaps HN should have a system to detect and remove them?

The two are not mutually exlusive. It's a good piece of content that at the same time advertises SingeStore. Everybody wins.

And if you are afraid of bias, it's pretty obvious that it will look at the things from a SingleStore perspective as it's on their website.