Ask HN: Does Hacker News still do in person meet ups? • Hacker News Board

filoleg wrote: post #156

freeqaz wrote: post #155

ITT: A disturbing lack of people requesting a Seattle meetup! I have a small group of founders I could likely convince to join. Anybody have any venues they would recommend? I've found Optimism to be pretty great

> a disturbing lack of people requesting a seattle meetup Not going to lie, as someone currently living in Seattle, the lack of people from here requesting a meetup is the most unsurprising thing in this thread.

LUGs etc seem to just starve here. What explains it?

Re: Ask HN: Does Hacker News still do in person meet ups?

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Post by gigaflop » Tue, Sep 20, 2022, 2:11 PM UTC

quickthrower2 wrote: post #26

kickaha wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But the beauty of it is that crap evaporates in real life. I don’t want to overstate it, of course, but the effect is always huge.

It would be a comedy sketch if you had a real meetup, but people using their "Hacker News" tone. Lot's of hot takes, fights. Maybe each person has a up and down vote button on their t shirt? Some boring conversation in the corner 2 people listen to. In 10 years time turns out it was the launch of Bitcoin, Figma or Dropbox or something.

That reminds me of a sports talk show I see on the gym TVs sometimes. A few talking heads, and a host who literally gives/takes points from these old men talking football/sports.

Re: Ask HN: Does Hacker News still do in person meet ups?

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Post by CameronBanga » Tue, Sep 20, 2022, 2:12 PM UTC

tptacek wrote: post #7

It does if you want it to. These have always been privately organized. If you set one up in Chicagoland, let me know.

A bit further out in the suburbs, but for anyone seeing this interested, we have a monthly meetup group in Valparaiso, IN, called ValpoHacks. We averages ~10-15 people per month and group has significant overlap with HackerNews interests.

Here's meetup link for more info: https://www.meetup.com/valpo-hacks-meetup/. If anyone has questions, my email is my HN username @gmail.com.