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Ask HN: Why is there some sort of a scam website being advertised on HN?

▲ 134 points 53 comments by pqtyw 4w ago HN discussion ↗

Pangram verdict · v3.3

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Gauntlet AI I believe is correlated originally with Lambda School (YC S17). YC founders I believe are able to post job postings on Hacker News, although this might stretch the definition a bit... When I saw this, I thought it was a paid advertisement on HN. yuck. At least when other companies do the jobs post it always includes "is hiring" to make it clear what it's for. I could be wrong, but I thought the "is hiring" posts are from a mechanism specifically for Ycombinator companies (which is why they also don't have comments on them) Wow, this doesn’t even look like the normal “hiring”/jobs post. Just a funnel straight into a potential scam :/ Shocking to see it here.It looks like they might be using a loophole since their product is training for jobs they are using that as a substitute for, “we’re hiring.” Very weird I cannot flag it. It's definitely a scam. Normally one cannot flag ads. Did HN pay for this advertisement? Is this a YC company? I really doubt they would be funding a company like this. Your scam meter is broken. We know that, because you are posting to this page. If it were functional, you would have already left capitalism. By continuing to engage with this page, you are accepting numerous other deceptions currently going on, including Google, capitalism, and smartphones. Last time I found a spam account only posting links to scam websites, I sent an email to HN and they banned the account. I'm pretty sure I reported this some time ago, I remember the bullshit headline salary and non-headline hours:80–100 hrs / week of production buildingI may be misremembering but I think it got positive comments from pg on X which was disappointing.This website and company seem dubious to be polite. It's been happening for some time now. I saw this pop up over 6 months ago. After searching I can find some dating back at least a year.