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Re: Ask HN: What has HN given you?

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Post by subroutine »

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…

There are some really amazing stories in this thread about how HN helped launch some really great products. And such a variety of innovation. Really the only thing I can find in common is that their websites allow you to enter a discount code. I can only assume these benevolent entrepreneurs pass out these codes to give a little back to loyal customers, or maybe even a small community who helped spotlight their company. Anyway, I'm just thinking out loud ;)

Re: Ask HN: What has HN given you?

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Post by zaqplm »

kelukelugames wrote: post #102

It motivated me to make stupid github projects for Internet points. A couple of them got voted to the front page and one even got flagged killed. Examples: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12071405 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10968004 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10296461 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10198391

I second your pronunciation tracking site. There are often trivial syllable mispronunciations endorsed by a community that if surfaced to the attention make significant improvement in speech clarity. What is more interesting than the not-obvious mistakes(that you cited as examples) is that there is a repetition(pattern) of pronunciation mistakes specific to a group(or all non-natives).

For instance: http://ijleal.ump.edu.my/images/volume4/IJLEAL004.SHAK_et_al...

I would like to make this work.

Re: Ask HN: What has HN given you?

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Post by zaqplm »

kelukelugames wrote: post #102

It motivated me to make stupid github projects for Internet points. A couple of them got voted to the front page and one even got flagged killed. Examples: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12071405 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10968004 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10296461 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10198391

Given the prestige and usefullness of English in many countires, an app that teaches pronunciations seems to me a good idea

Re: Ask HN: What has HN given you?

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Post by sundvor »

tevlon wrote: post #331
stealthcat wrote: post #316

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What happened to bioinformatics?

I finished my master and left the field. If you want to have a career in bioinformatics, there is no way you can get a good position without a PhD. I realized that a PhD is not the best option for me at that time. So i took a regular coding job. Sometimes i miss the "research" part. But i am still active in r/bioinformatics on reddit and read occasionally a paper from BioArxiv( https://www.biorxiv.org/ )

That is completely awesome, and a great choice. Speaking as someone who's not having had the easiest time lately, it's fantastic to see the positive outcome. All the best going forward.

Re: Ask HN: What has HN given you?

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Post by swah »

_Chief wrote: post #68

Impostor syndrome. jk Without HN, it's impossible to quantity how much tech/dev news I'd have missed out on. Plus, the comments are often even more insightful than the actual posts.

Not entirely false though. I do miss coding (actually playing with the computer) as I did in the 90s, alone and without comparing to anyone else, or thinking something was already done and my efforts were futile..

Re: Ask HN: What has HN given you?

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Post by chris_wot »

yesenadam wrote: post #37
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.

So then why on earth are you still on here?? (rhetorical question) Life's too short. Well, some people seem to just enjoy playing the wronged, misunderstood martyr, for whatever reason.

Not much of a rhetorical question, you seem to think you know why I'm here. It's because I personally find Hacker News is quite interesting and insightful. And I have contributions I can make, and the upvotes to most of them seem to show that others think so too.

Re: Ask HN: What has HN given you?

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Post by MichaelMoser123 »

MichaelMoser123 wrote: post #263

HN told me that the world is larger than I thought and that I don't know that much about it.

... also HN seems to have developed a peculiar ranking system - in fact any system of communication gets a ranking system. It seems that hierarchy is part of human nature, isn't it?

Re: Ask HN: What has HN given you?

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Post by mayurpipaliya »

The way each one of you are changing the world, and sense of intellect our community has is incredible.

I learned a lot by just reading through conversations here and in many other threads over the time. HN is helping me become better version of myself.

Thank you to each one of you!

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