Yeah. I can't even imagine how much revenue YC must lose for each minute of news downtime.

Given how much of a time sink HN is for everyone including YC startups, it may well be that HN downtime is a profit for YC.

Revenue from where? I don't see any advertisements.

Good point. Read-only Fridays are thing for sysadmins ;-)

Pshaw... Push on Friday, Patch on Saturday, Pray on Sunday that no one calls me to fix anything else!

Oh man, I wish I had that luxury in flight testing. No one likes flying on Friday afternoons. Especially when things break.

Bit off-topic: At my last workplace they used to push our code for several ecommerce sites to production on fridays, every week, without tests. It somehow worked out.