[daspion]

Maybe I haven't had my coffee yet, but why wouldn't they want people to link to their site? That's the point of the Web.

[SnaKeZ]

inverse psychology? I don't know...

[pjin]

While it could be reverse psychology to troll HNers to linking their site, it's also bad publicity among hackers, and the argument breaks Occam's razor.

[daimyoyo]

I believe Hanlon's razor more closely explains this site's actions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlons_razor

[nmridul]

After some time, no one will remeber and this would have bought them the required buzz.. At the end, any publicity is good publicity.