[jedberg]

> Are you aware it's ad supported?

This is 100% wrong. HN is paid for by YCombinator. Yes, some of the posts are hiring posts, but no one is paying for those.

What pays for HN is the success of the startups that YC invested in.

> Wikipedia is constantly running ads.

This is wrong too. They only run ads in November. The rest of the time the site is 100% ad free.