I'm pretty sure YC pays for it. It's one big server, so it's probably like $1k/month or something. But HN isn't anywhere near 8M active users, and it's pretty s

I'm pretty sure YC pays for it. It's one big server, so it's probably like $1k/month or something. But HN isn't anywhere near 8M active users, and it's pretty slow much of the time and has brief downtime often (multiple times per day, I think) so they can reboot the server to speed it back up.