Comment by chairmansteve
8 hours ago
You are right. But the real world is a messy place. Good people do bad things and vice versa. Not many people are entirely good or entirely bad.
HN is a very strong net positive IMO. YC could easily monetize it into oblivion. They don't.
My understanding is that HN is monetized e.g. marketing is explicitly permitted by founders etc.
I guess that's not conventional monetisation.