Hm, well it works fine for me as well - reset my password and got the email instantly.

So the lesson learned here is, rather than write a blistering criticism of a free service, make sure you are right. A better way to handle it would be to have posted here a question asking others if password emailing worked for them or if it was just the OP. This would have done a bunch better job of determining if it was broken at the HN side or somewhere between there and one's mailboxes.