Yeah. I can't even imagine how much revenue YC must lose for each minute of news downtime.
Given how much of a time sink HN is for everyone including YC startups, it may well be that HN downtime is a profit for YC.
Revenue from where? I don't see any advertisements.
Good point. Read-only Fridays are thing for sysadmins ;-)
Pshaw... Push on Friday, Patch on Saturday, Pray on Sunday that no one calls me to fix anything else!
Oh man, I wish I had that luxury in flight testing. No one likes flying on Friday afternoons. Especially when things break.
Bit off-topic: At my last workplace they used to push our code for several ecommerce sites to production on fridays, every week, without tests. It somehow worked out.