I would've expected the traffic to be low around the 16th:

http://technorati.com/chart/Y+Combinator?chartdays=30&language=n&authority=n

Actually, it was probably Jason crawling news.yc indexing everything...

pg, so if in 2 months news.ycombinator had a 20% chance of making you rich, whats the lowest offer you'd take? :) jokes