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Re:Stories that Hacker News removes from the front page by sillysaurus3 on Monday March 13, 2017 @04:43PM (#13862149)
I don't agree with the the assertion that HN mainly "serves a business purpose", perhaps in its early days its main purpose was to funnel prospective people into YC (second step from pg's essays, I stumbled on HN this way back in the day).

If HN serves no business purpose, why does it employ full-time paid moderators?

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Re:Stories that Hacker News removes from the front page by Mz on Monday March 13, 2017 @05:48PM (#13862764)
Obviously: They illegally magic up money in their basement from printing presses to support their idealistic desire to give all their time away for free, in spite of the inconvenient need to somehow also eat and keep a roof over their head.

/sarcasm

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