I came to know about hackernews through one of my colleagues. He was giving a presentation and HN was the first thing that popped up when he switched to his browser. Out of curiosity, I immediately googled it and that was my first introduction to HN.
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#2This might be funny, but I learned about HN on slashdot I believe, and found it was similar but with a much better signal-to-noise ratio in the comments and actually did a better job of living up to the reputation that slashdot had.
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#3In searching about an obscure fact concerning languages I found Paul Graham's essay "Beating the Averages"[0] I found it interesting, and started to read some of the other essays. As a quick hack I then drew a diagram of the obvious connections between them[1]. Similarly, I then used a PageRank-style ranking of the essays[2].
I sent the results to Paul Graham, who said I should submit them to HN, of which I'd never heard. I did so, and they pretty much sunk without trace, as do so many of my submissions. Even so, I read some more, and stayed for a while.
[0] http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
[1] https://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/PaulGrahamEssays.html?HNrj06
[2] https://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/PaulGrahamEssaysRanking.html?...
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#5i don't remember.
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#6I had seen a few HN articles posted on reddit. Discussions seemed more interesting and educated.
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#7It 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 OneThingWell's author took a long break due to RSI. Other forums/communities I found in that thread are/were SA [2], SDF, Barbelith [3] etc.
I guess it was just when I had got access to readily available Internet (before that it was weekly an hour or so in cyber cafes). I had immediately signed up everywhere (there were dozens) and SA is the only I never really got used to, never really stayed there.
[0] https://www.metafilter.com
[2] https://www.somethingawful.com
[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20051024234650/http://www.barbel...
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#8Digg died, or went bad or something. The exact process is hazy at this point, but I’m pretty sure there was a direct switch.
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#9My best friend in high school introduced me. We would both read it on the way to school and then discuss our favorite articles from that morning over lunch.
One of my fondest memomries of him was all the days when he would be so excited about something that he’d read that he’d dash up to me and give me a rushed synopsis before class started.
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#10As member of a support group, I was visiting the workshop of Copenhagen Suborbitals sometime in 2010. Had a long and wide-ranging conversation with a fellow rocket enthusiast. Two things he said, I remember very clearly:
The first about a place called Hacker News. Poul Graham, if I knew who that was. Oh yes I did. "Startups and Lisp, startups and lisp, but he's written interesting stuff too". Well, I'm still here.
The second about the principal rocket builder: "Peter is such a dynamic and forceful character. He's bound to have some dark side we don't know about". And well, Peter isn't really still here. He's serving a lifetime prison sentence for having murdered and dismembered a female journalist onboard his private submarine last year.