I've been on HN for almost 7 years now but recently I have noticed this particular link/text on the front page a lot. It goes something along the lines of "Jerry(YC S17) is hiring..." is this an ad?
And if it is an ad I have not once seen any comments or interactions with this post. Why then does it continue to show up if no one is visibly interested in this thing?
YC companies can post non-votable submissions without comments advertising (yes) that they're hiring.<p>They fade down but since there's no voting obviously there's a different presumably mainly time (but perhaps also interaction?) based mechanism for that.<p>e.g. Avenue (YC W21) is on the front page at the moment:
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27559764" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27559764</a><p>It's at least not <i>that</i> new. Agree with you some seem to utilise the privilege a lot more than others, just anecdotally/by observation, but it's certainly not just Jerry (and Avenue).