this is a message board created by the ycombinator founder, its audience is pretty much made entirely of people who would like this job.

there is an entire section dedicated to jobs at yc companies, it is not off topic

Well since the response on the "Who's hiring" threads lately has been pretty good I think we can consider it a news.

Anyhow, there is one spelling mistake on the second line under "Nice-to-Have's." IT should be proficient and not Profiient.

Not a big deal really but might turn away some language nazis.

Yes, yes it is. It is similar to Apple looking for Antennae Engineers. It must be a sign that Dropbox is having issues with their web operations, and they are about to issue an open letter to their users.

Many things here are not news, but some interesting startups things (Dropbox is an interesting startup, a YCombinator one), also, comment "This is news?" on all the "ASK YC" threads :-)

It is if you want a job at a startup. Which many people on HN definitely do.

HN is, in part, one giant job board.