It's not going to happen, but IMHO news.yc should live at a better (shorter) domain name.

Not only is the current one too long, it kinda belongs on it's own domain rather than a subdomain of ycombinator.com -- how many people using hacker news are here because it's affiliated with YCombinator?

All of this is analogous to when tech.memerandum.com became techmeme.