CS50x at the end there was a short list of places to check out
Ask HN: How did you discover Hacker News?
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Re: Ask HN: How did you discover Hacker News?
#32I can't remember. It's been at least 15 years? HN is still worth reading and the level of discourse is still quite high (though slightly worse than a decade ago). But it's refreshing to have a place where the comments are better than the prose of the linked articles in question.
Re: Ask HN: How did you discover Hacker News?
#33I was obsessed with creating tech startups in my bedroom before I even knew what the term "startup" meant.
I was showing a friend a hosting service I built and he told me to check out Hacker News. This must have been around 2009.
Discovering HN quite literally changed my life in various ways. It's genuinely insane how much this site, and that conversation, has directly and indirectly been the source of various branches my life has taken.
Things were so fun and dynamic back then. This was back when people would post weird weekend projects here and within a few months were millionaires. I'm sure it still happens, but much less frequently.
Re: Ask HN: How did you discover Hacker News?
#34My JavaScript tutor made mention of it in one of her videos. I checked it out and created an account only for me to abandon HN till I came back this year to create a new account and now I find HN interesting :)
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