See "What's the relationship between YC and HN?" in https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html YC existed first, then '

See "What's the relationship between YC and HN?" in https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html YC existed first, then 'news' was added as experiment and the domain kept. Afaik users don't mind. It's just a name. Some more background at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_News https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_News