Ask HN: How did you discover Hacker News?

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Post by chistev » Fri, Jun 05, 2026, 2:38 PM UTC

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Post by shanewei » Fri, Jun 05, 2026, 2:43 PM UTC

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Post by ColinWright » Fri, Jun 05, 2026, 3:17 PM UTC

I drew a graph of connections between Paul Graham essays, and coloured them via a PageRank-style weighting algorithm. I emailed it to PG, and he suggested I post it here.

Re: Ask HN: How did you discover Hacker News?

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Post by verdverm » Fri, Jun 05, 2026, 3:34 PM UTC

College roommate 17 years ago while doing NSF summer research, I am eternally grateful Eric!

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Post by rationalist » Fri, Jun 05, 2026, 7:20 PM UTC

It was so long ago (with a different account), that I don't remember.

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Post by m-hodges » Fri, Jun 05, 2026, 7:28 PM UTC

Saw I post on /r/programming in 2011.

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Post by CobaltFire » Fri, Jun 05, 2026, 7:41 PM UTC

Coworker about 10 years ago. Took me a few years to register an account.

Re: Ask HN: How did you discover Hacker News?

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Post by dang » Fri, Jun 05, 2026, 7:41 PM UTC

Through pg's essays, which I discovered via a Joel Spolsky blog post. Perhaps this one: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/06/13/how-microsoft-lost...

Re: Ask HN: How did you discover Hacker News?

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Post by chistev » Fri, Jun 05, 2026, 8:30 PM UTC

dang wrote: post #8

Through pg's essays, which I discovered via a Joel Spolsky blog post. Perhaps this one: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/06/13/how-microsoft-lost...

Man, you've been here since the beginning!

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Post by andrewmcwatters » Fri, Jun 05, 2026, 9:29 PM UTC

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