[karlb]

You can easily spot paid placements; they don't have the “upvote” triangle next to them.

[JosephRedfern]

I don't think they are paid placements, are they? I always just assumed Job Ads from YC companies got free listings?

[andyfleming]

Yeah, there aren't any paid placements on hacker news that I know of. There are job listings for YC companies that start at/near the top and work their way down over time automatically.

[karlb]

Ah, I assumed that the job listings were paid.

[rrrrob]

Perhaps the question was whether the article on fusion.net itself is a paid placement. It certainly reads like it.