Your job Removes your access to new.ycombinator.com, but not YCombinator.com?
tristmegistus: My job's web proxy also just started blocking news.ycombinator.com.  My guess is the "hacker" news got added to the filter software we use.  I plan to appeal the block with IT.  The blocking page tells me who to call to do this.  I develop software for them, so the site is relevant to my work.