That's it's purpose. The interesting discussions are secondary to advertising YCombinator and it's ventures.
So it's pay for placement for non-YC stuff?
I don't think the YC company ads are that intrusive.
Doubt YC actually charges anybody for use of the board. More likely they're offering a useful service free of charge to collect something even more valuable: attention. YC gets free advertising that passively selects the most relevant users, and users get a free link aggregator with unobtrusive ads relevant to our interests. Everyone wins!
The LLM shovelware self-promotion spam posts will continue until morale improves.
Morale, or stock prices?
Shareholder morale
I think humans are managing these campaigns. Specifically the marketing people at the various, now desperate companies.
It's not trivial to get onto HN when you're obviously marketing. LLM doesn't cut it.
I mean the projects and companies based on LLM tech, not that LLMs are doing the posting.
Ok.
You're saying tech workers living in the tech capital start posting tech stories on the tech website when they get to their tech jobs?
inconceivable!
No I'm not saying that.
Also: "tech stories": lol.
What are you saying then? Maybe posting more than a half finished thought as a headline would help spur discussion?
That the fucking marketers are winning and making the world (HN) a worse place.