I agree it's a great free service and I've rarely seen downtime, but as a nitpick:
The posts for YC backed companies that are hiring (where the comments are turned off) are ads.
The posts for YC backed companies that are hiring (where the comments are turned off) are ads.
If you put it that way, the whole site is a giant ad for Y Combinator. It just happens to be a public service too.
It's also one of the few sites* i frequent where uBlock Origin says it's not blocking anything.
* Tbh the only other is Ars Technica, and there only because I'm logged in as a paying customer.