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It’s literally a pet project of Paul Graham, a billionaire. That was my point.

• jjav 3y ago
  That's not really relevant. The question is how much are the operating costs to run it? I know it doesn't take a billionaire. I can't find it right now but I remember some of the infrastructure details have been posted in the past and it was quite minimal. It doesn't take much to run an efficient site like this one.
  • edgyquant 3y ago
    That was your question and not related to the point though. They don’t matter, HN is what it is because a well connected rich person pays for it out of pocket and associates his giant seed fund with it.
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  • jazzyjackson 3y ago
    Operating cost is nothing compared to bootstrapping cost. Paul had to go and create a whole VC firm just to bring everyone here together ;-P