Ask HN: What has HN given you? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What has HN given you?

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Post by bboreham » Mon, Feb 19, 2018, 6:54 AM UTC

ihm wrote: post #138

rdiddly wrote: post #56

A place to hang out (as it were) on the internet that is... ...connected to the tech scene ...ad-free ...not a "social network" in the usual data-harvesting sense ...slim, fast-loading, not riddled with bloat and bullshit ...not plagued quite so badly as the rest of the society "out there" by certain degenerate tendencies in what passes for discourse ...more interested in ideas and substance than in what color car th…

Well -- not totally ad free. There are the job postings for YC companies.

HN job postings, at least those on the first of the month, are open to anyone, not just YC companies.

Re: Ask HN: What has HN given you?

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Post by sleavey » Mon, Feb 19, 2018, 6:56 AM UTC

chrisper wrote: post #221

opportune wrote: post #154

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm very curious as to whether there are any other communities on the web that are as generally "high quality" as HN (bonus points if those communities are tech-focused or tech-adjacent). Anybody got any links? To date HN has the highest (consistent) quality of any online community I've encountered

I'd say Quora is rather good as well.

Nowhere near as high quality as it used to be though. I stopped my email digest there a year ago.

Re: Ask HN: What has HN given you?

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Post by bboreham » Mon, Feb 19, 2018, 6:56 AM UTC

Mashimo wrote: post #243

callmevlad wrote: post #133

Nearly 5 years ago, a few months after being rejected from YC and a few weeks from being essentially bankrupt (my daughter had an unexpected surgery while we had only catastrophic health insurance), my brother and I posted a Show HN about Webflow ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5407499 ). It was our last-ditch attempt to show a proof-of-concept to the world before going back to our old bosses to ask for our jo…

What does YC stand for?

“Y Combinator”, which is the name of the company that runs this website.

Re: Ask HN: What has HN given you?

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Post by mindfulplay » Mon, Feb 19, 2018, 6:58 AM UTC

The idea that startups are not for the few with the richest connections but anyone with the will and drive.

Thanks HN!

Re: Ask HN: What has HN given you?

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Post by mxschumacher » Mon, Feb 19, 2018, 6:58 AM UTC

outstanding signal to noise ratio and insightful comments. I read HN every day

Re: Ask HN: What has HN given you?

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Post by icc97 » Mon, Feb 19, 2018, 7:02 AM UTC

wasx wrote: post #11

fnayr wrote: post #6

For me the coolest thing about HN is the breadth of experts here for any (even niche) tech field. This allows for in depth understanding of new products (when someone who actually worked on the team making it is here) or calling out conspiracy theories about why some company shut down some product (because they have inside knowledge and can actually explain the reasoning). I can't count how many times I've read 'I wo…

Agreed. The wide spread of experts who come out and give first hand accounts of the event/product being discussed adds a tremendous amount of value to the discussion on the site. Discussion on this site is by no means perfect but it is miles ahead of the alternatives out there.

Coupled with the occasional burn of people who don't realise they're talking with the actual developer/person behind the product

Re: Ask HN: What has HN given you?

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Post by opportune » Mon, Feb 19, 2018, 7:03 AM UTC

sleavey wrote: post #252

chrisper wrote: post #221

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd say Quora is rather good as well.

Nowhere near as high quality as it used to be though. I stopped my email digest there a year ago.