[tedivm]

Are these actually funding Hacker News? I just thought since YC owns Hacker News they were giving out free job postings to the companies they fund.

IMO hacker news basically pays for itself with all the publicity it gives YC and the various YC companies. I'm sure other companies would be willing to pay a fortune for that kind of marketing (although it can obviously be a mixed blessing).

[kristianc]

> ‘IMO hacker news basically pays for itself with all the publicity it gives YC and the various YC companies.‘

‘I’ll just take this soda, the grocery store can afford it.’

[tedivm]

No one is stealing anything here, and I didn't even advocate for blocking the job postings (which I also pointed out I'm not sure are even paid). I simply questioned whether the job postings are even paid at all.

[kristianc]

HN says that they are the ads on the platform - they’re a perk for the companies who have been accepted to YC and want to attract talent to their startup.

If blocking them does not financially impact HN, blocking them would certainly make the life of that startup harder than it needs to be. Particularly as none of the arguments that routinely get used against trackers actually seem to apply here.

[tedivm]

Those are really good points, and would have been a much better response than the soda can thing.