[bogomipz]

Thank you for articulating these points, agreed. They seem to have an insatiable desire to "become" the internet. I also find it bazaar that their CTO submits every single one of their blog posts to HN. This is the 16th Cloudflare blog post they've posted to HN this week. You would think they might have a marketing budget.

[WordSkill]

457 upvotes and 212 comments in less than 20 hours would suggest there is legitimate interest in this announcement.

You are correct that their CTO has submitted 16 posts this week (not all of them from their own blog), but I don't see the harm in that: less than half of them attract any comments at all and quickly slip beneath the waves.

Also, to be fair, it has been an unusually busy week, as they had a "Crypto Week" during which they announced something genuinely interesting each day, and their 8th birthday was a fair excuse for a navel-gazing post.

[bogomipz]

>"You are correct that their CTO has submitted 16 posts this week (not all of them from their own blog"

Aside from 1(techcrunch) they are all just posts of their own blog. I would call 15 submissions about your company in 7 days excessive.

If more people start doing this the danger is that HN gets reduced to just another marketing channel. I think that's a reasonable concern.

[Operyl]

When we're finding the majority of them interesting, then it's relevant to Hacker News.

The majority of these posts tend to go into deep technological explanations, making it a good fit.