I read an article called "Breaking the Silk Road's Captcha" about 4 years ago which led me to Hacker News. I spend about 1-2 hours per day reading the articles. Is it a terrible waste of time? Who knows?
Ask HN: How did you get introduced to HN?
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Re: Ask HN: How did you get introduced to HN?
#42HN came up when I was searching for venues where you can announce the existence of a new programming language.
Re: Ask HN: How did you get introduced to HN?
#43It was a comment by someone on some forum. Someone looking for similar sites as reddit (so was I) and another user who had replied had mentioned about HN a forum which is almost as good or as bad as reddit just that people on HN like to believe they are inherently better than reddit. I am not sure which forum it was - maybe reddit itself. MeFi [0] and OneThingWell [1] are the gems I found in the same thread. Sadly On…
You just reminded me that I came here through OneThingWell. Does anyone here know if the author is all right? That site is/was lovely.
No idea. I had mailed ~2 years ago.
Re: Ask HN: How did you get introduced to HN?
#44I was looking for some news aggregator for tech industry (having RSS feed) and found this on one of the "top 10" websites.