Literal Ask HN: What Is the Cost of Running Hacker News?

15 points by deanstag 5 years ago | 5 comments

detaro 5 years ago |

I'd guess: dangs salary, and some rounding error for hosting (afaik it's still just on a single server, so even if that's some managed offering somewhere it won't be that much)

mytechtoday 5 years ago |

Hacker News pays close attention to the content on the main page. They purge anything that doesn't trend left leaning or counters the standard left's corporate interests.

For example, I posted a link to Michael Moore's film in which he eviscerates bio-fuels. This post was mysteriously removed. It was also removed the second time I posted it. This was despite the link the "A year wearing shorts to work" as another HN article link at the time continued to exist.

deanstag 5 years ago | |

I get you! It is even harder for a few of us who are leaning down in the political graph. Atleast the political right gets an acknowledgement of existence. The political down are accused as outright quacks.

verdverm 5 years ago | | |

The 0,0 (owl eyes) party gets ignored by all the eigenparties who can't seem to find any alignment

throwaway45349 5 years ago | |

That's more to do with the tech industry's own left wing bias imo, not specifically YC.