This comment section, saturated with people marketing this book, is absolutely bizarre and distasteful.
This really feels like stepping over a line from sharing content to blatant advertising.
From the guidelines:
> Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.
If it helps, we (the authors) didn't even post this to HN (or ask someone else to). We definitely will answer questions as they come up though. And we were giving away free chapters from the book before today and are just linking to it. I don't see anything we're doing that is breaking the guidelines. Lots of authors chime in when their posts/articles/books are brought up.
This really feels like stepping over a line from sharing content to blatant advertising.
From the guidelines: > Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.