I think this is a few years old, but a few previous posts have some interesting discussion

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1539783 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=825015 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=294455

Flagged. Adam retracted those statements a few weeks later. There is simply no excuse for that site to repost those old statements without also mentioning the retraction.

So did Visa/MC ban it or not?

This is ancient and all conjecture. This video is quite old.

With a casual glance, this was posted to YouTube in August 2008, so this is at least 3, 3.5 years old...

Despite popular belief on the Internet, lots of people are born every second.

Lots of people have just discovered how to program and/or taken a serious interest in entrepreneurship in the last week.

Lots of people have just discovered Hacker News in the last DAY.

So, chances are, the first time you saw this video isn't the first time everyone else reading Hacker News today saw this video.

In that case, simply click the down arrow (for whatever your personal reasoning is) and move on.

Continuing with that reasoning, there are only 30 slots on the home page and there are hundreds or thousands of "classic" links that noobs would be interested in, so HN could end up with no actual news.

It was also added yesterday and killed: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3542831

It seems this guy found it yesterday and resumed public interest in the issue: http://www.disinfo.com/2012/02/mythbusters-banned-from-discu...