Would you pay $5/yr for HN?
jacquesm: No, and not because I can't afford it but because I think that any site that charges $5 for people to contribute content is misunderstanding the beauty of the web.Everybody can contribute, even those for who $5 would be a very large expense, and you'd be surprised how big a portion of the world that would be.Some Indian, Latin American, Chinese or Russian hacker would - even if capable of paying - find themselves locked out because they can't pay by card, either because they don't have them or because the IPSP won't allow them to use it.