[runesoerensen]

"Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something (e.g. to ask us questions about Y Combinator, or to ask or complain about moderation)"

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[Zombieball]

I think in this scenario it seems fair to post a question. What's the alternative, write a blog article asking the same and post a link to that instead?

I'm also interested in a status update given some recent news posted on HN about Finland experimenting with the same ideas.

[prawn]

Alternative would be emailing them "Are you able to share any progress on the BI project? I'd bet more on HN would be keen to hear too." Project then writes a blog and someone submits to HN.

However, I can appreciate that the slight public pressure of an Ask YC making the front page might encourage quicker movement or at least a response that didn't otherwise warrant a blog post.

[irinai13]

Agreed. This seems like the right way to ask for updates. Especially since other people would like to know too.

[saycheese]

If YC is going to use HN to promote themselves, seems only fair to allow the community to query them via HN.

[jbpetersen]

There needs to be an "Ask YC" weekly.

It'd also make for a great way to nudge the community in the desired direction by focusing attention (and away from becoming what's effectively a standalone subreddit).

[dimino]

Except for the fact that YC explicitly said don't do this...

[pbhjpbhj]

Which is not necessarily a reason not too. That's the double-edge of company backed fora.

[swrobel]

Not exactly this...

[elliotec]

Does this count? It's just a query about updates on something YC posted on HN themselves. Seems allowed to me.

[kristianc]

This doesn't seem in the spirit of this rule, which seems designed to prevent questions of the type 'How do I get into YC?'

[patrickg_zill]

Correct me if I am wrong, but user "sama" is Sam Altman, President of YC; so if he answers instead of killing the thread, I would guess he is OK with it.

[Hydraulix989]

Are you actually a mod though? Rule call-outs are almost always even more noisy than the original offense was.