Top posts

Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 13,070 posts.

Society, Policy & Culture
Any year
9661

Mahalo's new spam is worse than old

Last week, after Matt Cutts gave Jason Calacanis a warning about Mahalo.com’s spammier pages (and probably a few stern looks as well), Jason changed a few items. He had them rename their spambot from “searchclick” to “stub”, thinking a less obvious name would throw off anyone looking into the spam situation. Very…