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

From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html:

Another kind of job ad is reserved for YC-funded startups. These appear on the front page, but are not stories: they have no vote arrows, points, or comments. They begin part-way down and fall steadily. Only one is on the front page at a time. The rest are listed at https://news.ycombinator.com/jobs.

Also, from https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html:

Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something. Send it to hn@ycombinator.com.

I've deleted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48506575 now because technically it wasn't a job ad. You can see from https://news.ycombinator.com/jobs the sort of thing that usually appears in this category.

It’s a /jobs post.

Link to all job postings, the Gauntlet AI one is at the top of the list: https://news.ycombinator.com/jobs

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...

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.

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.

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.”

These guys are run by Bloomtech, one of those scammy coding bootcamp things.

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 building

I may be misremembering but I think it got positive comments from pg on X[1] which was disappointing.

This website and company seem dubious to be polite.

Ah, here you go:

[1]

...I've never seen a company with such dedicated haters. ...

https://x.com/paulg/status/2019770359830949961

https://xcancel.com/paulg/status/2019770359830949961

I have enough admiration for him to be willing to hear the argument and have my mind changed, but they clearly have friends at YC and on the surface it doesn't look good.

Last time I found a spam account only posting links to scam websites, I sent an email to HN and they banned the account.

If it sounds too good to be true, then it usually is.

Needs to be a post mortem on how this was allowed to happen.

The greed index is off the frickin' charts right now across the board, that's why

This is normal for YC companies launching, though traditionally they would say (YC W26) or something like that

My guess is that they realized that was bad for conversion and just did a regular post

I think more interesting is that the product comes across like a scam and so all those things together make it look like a big scam

Was about to ask the same

Funny seeing that post, looking into it, asking the same question, and arriving here. Grifters gonna grift.

Tell HN: Gauntlet AI Is BloomTech/Lambda School - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42761972 - January 2025 (8 comments)

Gauntlet AI is an intensive 12-week AI training - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42759459 - January 2025 (6 comments)

Gauntlet AI – An intensive 12-week AI training - Automatic $200k/yr job - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42410277 - December 2024 (2 comments)

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

(TLDR Gauntlet AI -> LambdaSchool & BloomTech | YC S17)

sending a ping to /dang - is this post expected to be where it is at? @dang

Alright, the post is down now.

Quality of YC investments are nose diving.

I can vouch that this is not a scam. My wife enrolled with them and went through the first weeks of their program, though she couldn't complete due to some exigency. They were trained on how to vibe-code, and then asked to build complex apps using AI with all the costs borne by Gauntlet. Her friends did fly to Austin and went through the complete program.