Well Hacker News doesn't make any revenue and acts as a community project of a c...

mattmanser · on June 18, 2011

It also produces 0 content, merely comments.

It's an aggregator.

We've all got used to the aggregators like google making all the money by convincing everyone content should be free. It was the greatest and long-term wise worst achievement of the dot com boom.

JeremyBanks · on June 18, 2011

> It also produces 0 content, merely comments.

I wouldn't say those are mutually exclusive.

maigret · on June 18, 2011

And even for the comments, HN hosts them and doesn't write them. Well, except when PG comments ;)