Is this really a bad thing, in a "there's no such thing as bad press" sense? I've never heard of most of these companies, and it would help to understand some of their daily work, common pain points, or just plain interesting discussions about them while considering them as a potential employer.

Most of these posts link straight to a job description and it's up to the reader to guess how the company is. Maybe that information asymmetry is purposeful (to avoid negative comments?), but it gives off a "has something to hide" vibe inadvertently, especially compared to the openness of the rest of HN.

As an example, we get both positive and negative stories about Cloudflare, Vercel, OpenAI, etc. all the time, but they have no trouble recruiting people. And it's much clearer what they do and how they do it, vs all these new startups that nobody's heard of yet.

Shrug. Just a thought.