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Though I do wish people would lighten up. You can't hardly post a joking comment without the downvotes pouring in. Yeah, we don't want this to be a meme palace, but it's ok to kid around every once in a while.
I’m always shopping for new perspectives or opinions that I haven’t seen yet that maybe give me a clue on how to do things better.
People tend to give a lot of perspective in-between the words they’re writing. How people use, feel about or otherwise think about ‘things’ (products or services).
That’s the gold here for me. Learning how people see the obviousness that I also see, but in their own unique ways.
Helps me build better stuff.
Unexpected but priceless. Thanks HN.
A sense of dispair: still no idea which web framework to choose.
And even in those few domains where I might possibly be an expert, I occasionally get turned around by HN commenters or the stories they submit. That keeps me growing.
I'm deeply grateful for the quality of the HN community and to HN for maintaining it.
The next year I applied and got in with my startup Posterous. We built that to a Top 250 Quantcast site, and Twitter ended up buying it. In 2011 I joined Y Combinator as a designer in residence, then investing partner through 2015. In 2015, I started a $125M Seed VC fund (Initialized Capital) with Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian, who interviewed me in 2008 to get into YC.
So I literally wouldn't have done any of those things and probably would have stayed on at Palantir as a software engineer in 2007 if I had never seen Hacker News.
That being critical doesn't mean necessarily being mean. Knowledge about a bunch of new things that I wouldn't know. Inspiration to try and do new things. But, most importantly 7000+ pretend internet points and something to do when I'm bored.
It's also been a place for me to vent a bit as a senior sysadmin, and learn quite a bit about how much I don't know.