I was telling team YC during interview week that I miss the "animal" question, partially because I really love our answer (the "we're a freaking zoo" line is pure Huffman).

They used to ask for your Slashdot username!

Well, Reddit didn't exist yet (on account of Reddit being a YC startup) and HN didn't exist because Reddit hadn't gotten to a state that HN needed to be created. So the evolution seems natural, assuming they wanted to know whether you made any intelligent comments on tech news sites.

And in Steve's defense, his number should be lower, but I think he lurked for years...

Now what do they ask for?

From http://news.ycombinator.com/w2011form :

>For each founder, please list: YC username; ... personal url, github url, facebook id, twitter id;...

"Sorry, the application deadline has passed."

Edit: Anyone have a copy of it?

You can still get to the application form to apply late, but they seem to do some session stuff making the direct link not work (which means you have to acknowledge that you're applying late).

Anyway, go here: http://news.ycombinator.com/apply

Click "apply late". Click "Edit your application online" (number 3).

You should be able to get it at http://news.ycombinator.com/apply . If not, go to http://ycombinator.com/late.html