"... Equo ne credite, Teucri. quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes. ..." [0]

So I log in ( http://www.hackerne.ws/x?fnid=Ei8X5456V8 - see login on far right of http://www.hackerne.ws ) then you steal my password? I'd be more impressed with some neat hack that stripped out some useful data or re-think the reading process. Not a copy of what I can already use.

[0] Can be re-interpreted as "beware of geeks bearing gifts". The domain should be thought of as a Trojan.

actually, I am Greek ;)

I just bought this domain but I can give it to YC without money if they want it.

godaddy forwarding is not working so for now you have to use it with alias www.

That's a very kind offer.

That said, I think that the news.yc domain name is very intentional- It emphasizes the connection the site has with the Y Combinator application and submission process.

When PG et all review yc applications, they look over the posts that people have made to the forum, and use that as an element in their judgement. Knowing that this is the case encourages people to make thoughtful and relevant posts, rather than just posting LOLcats, and the like.. Essentially, it's reddit, but your conduct matters, if you want to join the YC club.

For that reason and others, I suspect that the YC crew probably prefer the name being predominately tied with the Y Combinator brand.

Intentional or not, it's probably a bad idea. I think most hackers would be repulsed by the idea of a community where users try to be on their best behavior, lest the divine hand should pass them by.

This is probably why you don't see many hackers here. PG said recently that he is "cautiously optimistic" about this community. Between the lines, that sounds like disappointment. Old reddit this site is certainly not.

you are right...i guess it could be redirected directly to news.ycombinator.com...

Good password stealing sir. I had this and about 11 other things open in tabs, plus was AIMing and got confused. Good thing I use Roboform and have randomly generated passwords for each site.

Hey PG, is there a change password function?

if you did a simple "dig www.hackerne.ws CNAME" you would see there is a record for news.ycombinator.com thus I don't steal anything.

there is no even server hosting the domain. nslookup could give you a hint

Sorry, I don't even know what that means. There should be basic account maintenance functionality anyway though.

When a DNS client gets a CNAME record back, it looks up the other name to get the IP address. So anyone who looks up the address of hackernew.ws will end up connecting to an address for news.ycombinator.com

May be we can collaboratively build a new HackerNews app from scratch in hackerne.ws