Hacker News a social news website based about computer hacking and startup companies has just blocked Google and other search engines from indexing their site.

Hacker News is a social news sharing community by Y Combinator which is a startup funding company and is similar to sites like Digg and Reddit, where users can comment and vote on stories submitted to the site.

However, in a recent turn of events ^[1], Y Combinator has blocked Google and all other search engines from crawling the site. The news was flashed to all users through a Twitter ^[2] update ^[3].

There is no official confirmation about why Hacker News blocked Google, however, the Hacker News community is definitely not happy about it ^[4] since there is no official announcement on why the block was put in place.