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This is not primarily an advertising site. See guidelines:

> Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.

> It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time

Yes. I was responding specifically to this claim:

> This is effectively an advertising website.

Which remains untrue even if you're allowed to post your own stuff from time to time.

Most of the time, the top post of a Show HN is someone else talking about their own project or something off-topic from the Show HN.

Self-promotion on HN is constant.

> not apparently being done by a bot

LLMs will make this very hard to detect, very soon if not already.