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Re: Ask HN: What has HN given you?

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Post by sytse »

dokem wrote: post #86
sytse wrote: post #31

It gave me a job, a company, and a sense of purpose. In 2012 I did a Show HN for GitLab.com https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4428278 Today we are 1800 contributors and a company of 220 on a mission to ensure that everyone can contribute.

I just switched our small company over to gitlab over the last couple weeks. So far the experience has been great. It seems like a really solid piece of software.

Yay! Thanks for using GitLab. Every month we're trying hard to make the installation, the performance, the security, and the interface better. Still a lot of work to do but we've come a long way from our beginnings being based on gitolite.

Re: Ask HN: What has HN given you?

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Post by kelukelugames »

It motivated me to make stupid github projects for Internet points. A couple of them got voted to the front page and one even got flagged killed.

Examples:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12071405

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10968004

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10296461

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10198391

Re: Ask HN: What has HN given you?

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Post by sethammons »

I first learned about Go here. It inspired me to learn more about the language. Myself and two others worked to get it adopted at work, where it has become the main language there, which makes my daily life much more pleasant.

The other thing HN has given me is a large time sink. I spend far too much time reading comments here.

Re: Ask HN: What has HN given you?

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Post by sunjain »

Best thing about HN are the quality of posts and the comments. No politics, mainly focused around technology and intellectually challenging posts. It gives you idea of technology trends, and how others are handling challenges similar to yours - something equivalent of going to a conference, but without going to a conference. Some of the comments here are even better than the article and when you combine both, you get a complete perspective. You learn not only technology but how to lead people, how to(and not to) run a company based on what/how you absorb from HN. It's the quality of comments that makes it better than any such site/forum out there. I still remember a comment - which was almost equivalent to a dozen books, around why some people are successful - something to the effect that it is not that we lack information, or lack access to information but the fact that our mind is so full of input that we don't act on what we already know we need to do. Very few other places, I've found such thought provoking comments.

Re: Ask HN: What has HN given you?

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Post by Thriptic »

It got me into programming. One day I was trying to VPN into my workplace, and I started experiencing network connectivity problems which were very rare. I went on FB and asked if anyone else was experiencing connectivity problems. A friend of mine who was a developer linked me to a post on HN where the service degradations were being discussed.

I had never heard of HN and went back to the front page. One of the first links on the front page was a submission advertising the fact that Coursera (which I had also never heard of) was just launching a data science course track which also covered machine learning. I was in pure bio at the time, but I had heard about machine learning and data science at work and thought they sounded very cool but would be unapproachable to someone without a strong math background. When I saw the link, I said "oh fuck yea I should totally look into this!". I checked out the course track, learned basic R, and have never looked back. I've now fully transitioned into development and out of bio :D

HN also inspired me to launch my own company, which I never even thought of as an option until I started spending time on this site.

Re: Ask HN: What has HN given you?

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Post by BooneJS »

sincerely wrote: post #57
BooneJS wrote: post #53

A reading list that I'll never be able to get through. Is there a service that turns reading lists to mp3s?

Do you not read faster than regular human speaking voice speed? (No shame if you do, just curious)

Not at all; the opposite, I think. As a new Silicon Valley resident, I spent 2 hours a day in a car and have really been enjoying Audible. A few years ago I found myself using Instapaper-to-Kindle. Now I need something-to-Audible. :/

Re: Ask HN: What has HN given you?

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Post by dkersten »

pavanlimo wrote: post #95
ne01 wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You only got ~60 upvotes? Interesting, I always thought the number of upvotes for a Show HN post correlates to its future success.

I believe 60 upvotes at the time is probably equal to >150 upvotes today.

Upvote inflation, interesting!

Re: Ask HN: What has HN given you?

#110

Post by photogrammetry »

kelukelugames wrote: post #102

It motivated me to make stupid github projects for Internet points. A couple of them got voted to the front page and one even got flagged killed. Examples: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12071405 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10968004 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10296461 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10198391

That's pretty neat!
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