I probably found it via Paul Graham’s web site. I don’t remember exactly how I found his website, probably via his Lisp essays or “A Plan for Spam”.
Ask HN: How did you discovered HN?
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Re: Ask HN: How did you discovered HN?
#12I've learned about HN at my first job/apprenticeship from older coders 10 years ago. Same for twitter, basically :)
Re: Ask HN: How did you discovered HN?
#13I recently came across my (admittedly cringey) blog post from 2005 (that's 15 years ago!): https://kirubakaran.com/archive/2005-12-thoughts-of-paul-gra...
So turns out I discovered Paul Graham in 2005 via his "Great Hackers" talk, started following his essays, then discovered Reddit from that, and then Hacker News from that.
My HN profile says I created the account in Aug 10, 2007. But I remember lurking for a while, so I must have started using it a few months prior to that.
Seems like a lifetime ago.
Re: Ask HN: How did you discovered HN?
#14I was reading coding horror back in the 2000s when it was mentioned on that (Jeff Atwood's blog of Stack Overflow and Discourse fame, though he originally was known for his blog).
I think that triggered a large influx of new users right then so the community response was to post a ton of erlang articles to try and discourage new members and stave off an eternal september.
Seems like dang even got involved in that!
Re: Ask HN: How did you discovered HN?
#15I heard Mike or Rob mention it on the Startups For The Rest Of Us Podcast back in 2011.
Re: Ask HN: How did you discovered HN?
#16IIRC, I discovered about YC back in 2011 from the book https://www.amazon.com/Startups-Open-Sourced-Jared-Tame-eboo...
Came to take a look, found HN.