Ask HN: Why Does Hacker News pay for Google Ads?

We don't! Bizarre. Would you like to email us a screenshot to hn@ycombinator.com?

I'll email you a screenshot now. Just Googled and still seeing the ad.

Hum, it could be to prevent that someone from having a place on top of the first result for hacker news.

Is it possible that some 3rd party unrelated to HN or YC is running these ads? Weird...