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Re: Ask HN: What has HN given you?

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Post by andrea_sdl »

mazumdar wrote: post #315
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…

Nearly 5 years ago, a few months after being rejected from YC for the first time, I came across your Show HN and started using Webflow to build a mockup of my product's sign-up page (I did not know how to code at that time). Over the next 2.5 years, I reapplied to YC five more times. I interviewed twice in the second round. I eventually got rejected every time. From the ideation stage, to $1M in revenue, YC has an ap…

nice to see yathletics here :) I'm a customer.

It's a pain to ship outside US (because of taxes/shipping prices) , but aside from that you make great products. keep going, and it's nice to see some bootstrapped examples too.

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Post by MrJagil »

tevlon wrote: post #297

1,5 years ago, i was suicidal ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13051611 ). 1 week after posting this. I got a visit from the police. Apparently, someone gave them the ip and it took them a week to locate me. They wanted to take me to the hospital to check if i had mental problems. Of course they couldn't force me to go. I assured them that i would fix my problems and make a therapy. It was a wakeup call for me.…

What a story! Though I am not depressed, I find myself extremely frustrated with a performance-obsessed society at the moment. I go to one of the most prestigious schools in my country. That should feel like an accomplishment, but I am now surrounded by people "better" than me. It's inspiring, but it also demolishes your ego, from time to time.

Last night I had a dream of becoming true friends with a colleague that i idolise. Upon waking up, I realised that the women that I love, sleeping next to me, should've been the one occupying that mind-space, and i suddenly felt pathetically insecure.

Re: Ask HN: What has HN given you?

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Post by dang »

dcl wrote: post #287

A gigantic inferiority complex

I know the feeling. But there may be an illusion in it. People are more likely to post on topics they know about, so the posts here tend to represent their high points. (There are plenty of low points as well, but when you're vulnerable to feeling inferior, those don't register.) If you only look at the high points of a large enough group, it's going to seem overwhelmingly superior.

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Post by gkya »

I've had tiny conversations with people like Alan Kay and Walter Bright here. Now, I'm a humanities undergrad living in Istanbul with a soft spot for programming and computers, so without something like HN, this sort of interactions were impossible.

HN is bustling with domain experts and very smart people, lots of experience, just the best kind of guys to rub shoulders with.

Re: Ask HN: What has HN given you?

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Post by bewe42 »

Access to an incredibly thoughtful bunch of minds which I doubt I could have had otherwise. Many new ideas and helpful advice. However, it also is also my number one excuse to procrastinate.

Re: Ask HN: What has HN given you?

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Post by dang »

mancerayder wrote: post #137
chris_wot wrote: post #12

Lectured at for over 2 years that I knew why I was rate limited. Got told for 2 years that I made “low quality” posts. It gave me a sense on injustice. You be the judge.

What's rate-limiting, being downvoted? People get up and downvoted all the time. Why would that discourage you? A person can't live life without being questioned. And I'd much rather be questioned by smart strangers (even if I disagree) than argue with significant others.

When accounts post too many unsubstantive comments too quickly and/or get involved in flamewars, we sometimes penalize the account by rate limiting it, which means the software won't let it post as often. Actually it limits the account to posting no more than a certain % of all the posts appearing on the site.

When people ask us about this we're happy to answer, and to take the penalty off if they commit to using HN as intended in the future. If we don't get that commitment, though, we don't take the penalty off, and we put it back on if they revert to their old ways. This is one of the software tools we use for preventing the signal/noise ratio from getting too low here.

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

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Post by cm2187 »

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…

And also with many people who I believe are experts in their field adding insightful comments on a particular topic, and from whom one can ask some clarification directly. This direct access in a wide range of domains is I think quite valuable and unique.
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