Hacker news is more a place that uses its property as a nerd watering hole to occasionally feature job ads for Y combinator funded companies. For this goal, it

Hacker news is more a place that uses its property as a nerd watering hole to occasionally feature job ads for Y combinator funded companies. For this goal, it needs to be as nerd-friendly as possible. Reddit on the other hand targets a different demographic. So I'd say at the current point, it's unlikely. But this can always change. Reddit also once didn't have the redesign and once had free API access (still has for a few days). In the end, the cloud is someone else's computer.