The $1.6 million a month estimate is completely made up. They just used some web service that tries to estimate, based on pageviews. Not based on any actual k

The $1.6 million a month estimate is completely made up. They just used some web service that tries to estimate, based on pageviews. Not based on any actual knowledge. (That said, they probably did well - but not that well.) According to the same site, HN makes $1.4 million a year.