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Given the state of the front page/s of HN now, and lately, I expected the answer to be coin-hive or some other crypto-currency related thing.

Instead the answer is simply the rather more mundane "advertising".

Don't forget affiliations and subscriptions.

At the height of their time, the likes of rapidshare/megavideo used to pay a lot.

I've heard that some forums which are dedicated to linking to copyright violations are owned by the file hosting site they use for the files.