Comment by I_am_tiberius
10 days ago
Damn. This is the second post today that just disappeared from the top of the landing page. This is 100% manipulated.
10 days ago
Damn. This is the second post today that just disappeared from the top of the landing page. This is 100% manipulated.
HN is the most manipulated front page on the internet.
Top spot on HN is worth like $10M per hour or something, of course it’s manipulated, you should expect it to be
That extrapolates to $87B per year for just the top spot on HN, more than all of Instagram's ad revenue, or about 40x Twitter's. Or $240M per day, about 1/3 of the ad spend on Superbowl, just for the top spot.