[gsibble]

HN is the most manipulated front page on the internet.

[baq]

Top spot on HN is worth like $10M per hour or something, of course it’s manipulated, you should expect it to be

[smilliken]

That extrapolates to $87B per year for just the top spot on HN, more than all of Instagram's ad revenue, or about 40x Twitter's. Or $240M per day, about 1/3 of the ad spend on Superbowl, just for the top spot.