It's the reason I discovered React and a bunch of other tech so my current career is in part due to it :)
Ask HN: What tangible benefits did you get from spending time on HN?
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#132In December 2012, one of our early alpha users of Screenhero posted the product to HN. It catapulted us into the public beta phase, and got us our initial traction. Those users eventually helped us refine the product over a year and a half to get it to revenue, profitability and eventually, our acquisition by Slack.
Almost a year ago, I posted my new startup (https://screen.so) to HN, and got a similar group of amazing users that have been helping us slowly but surely improve the product. We’ve now got a number of household-name companies using us on a daily basis.
It’s also my favorite site to visit every day in the hope of learning something new. There’s nothing quite like it.
So yes, HN has changed my life multiple times. Kudos to the community and to dang and others who make this site as awesome as it is on a daily basis.
I have, admittedly, gotten zero wives directly through HN!
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#133Yes, it's a waste of time, I would leave and not return. I haven't made any money or started any companies or met any wives on this site, it's a total joke.
>I haven't made any money or started any companies or met any wives on this site, it's a total joke.
From my reading of HN, what you need to do is invest in crypto and date ballerinas.
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#134Cool products, valuable knowledge / informations not all tho, you can make friends here too....
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#1351) I found my first job out of grad school via a startup's Show HN post. It began a successful chain of SWE positions for me and unlocked many doors.
2) I was inspired to relearn JS and web development when Jen Dewalt's fabulous journey of 100 (now 180) websites in 100 (180) days was posted daily: https://jenniferdewalt.com/. I credit it with giving me the baseline to pass those interviews. I later had the luck to work with Jen and the joy of letting her know how she shaped my career.
3) Introduced me to Clojure which I loved having learned Scheme in the past. This baseline again allowed me to nail that first job interview.
4) In general, keeps me up to date on emerging technologies, services, and trends. Knowing about sendgird and postmates and their general features and pricing off the top of my head in my most recent job interview seemed to earn me some bonus points from the CTO.
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#136hacker news is good to me for keeping a bead on latest tech stuff (sometimes related to work). i've def gotten some use mainly out of finding new processes, apps, etc. that help run business better.
it's filtered significantly better than something like reddit, but ultimately if you spend any good amount time on it you're just "wasting it". if you want tangible benefits in anything you have to "do" vs. accumulating knowledge.
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#137I got a much clearer sense of the deeply Ayn Rand political sensibilities of HN and much of startup world. I naively expected a mix of sort of normal California liberalism with utopic, egalitarian aspirations. But in fact the dominant ideas seem to be a kind of just-got-to-college paused-philosophical social Darwinism, I’m special so regulation is just a hindrance, social issues and justice are just a distraction kin…
There is the crypto-Rand crowd as you've described it, but there's also the neoliberal technocratic mindset that everything can be condescendingly fixed with technology or scientific/bro-scientific inquiry. In this case, the technocratic ideology is considered as standing outside of the realm of ideology and culture, and as a natural result of enlightened thought that manages to transcend bias. By this framework, "normal" people must be manipulated for their own good.
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#138I learned about the CentOS 8 story and could cancel a pending upgrade. Saved a lot of effort.
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#139I found my current and my previous job through it, and I've been extremely happy in both places. So... almost five years of employment by now I guess?
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#140It helped me learn to hate startup culture individual by individual, and not just as an abstract group.
Wouldn't want to be part of a club that would have me either.