What's also telling is that the program started in Boston and moved to Silicon Valley pretty quickly. In my own experience, it seems that the Boston startup scene is dying. Unless you're in life sciences. The ecosystem there seems to have given up on supporting early stage non-life sciences companies.
Y Combinator When No One Cared
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Re: Y Combinator When No One Cared
#12Reminds me of that old Dropbox "ShowHN" post. Looking back at old emails takes some heart, I'm afraid of the idea as I'd probably cringe too hard. My Reddit account just had it's "cakeday" which means I'm in the "9th year club" and the idea I have comments from 9 years ago still publicly available kind of scares me. Too the point where I feel motivated to write a script to delete anything beyond >1-2yrs back. Old com…
> My Reddit account [has] comments from 9 years ago still publicly available
> motivated to write a script to delete anything beyond >1-2yrs back.
Interesting that HN doesn't allow deletion of older comments; your account here appears to be roughly that same age.
It has also become a thing recently to cleanup Twitter history: I just deleted 36K tweets | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13731227
Re: Y Combinator When No One Cared
#13Reminds me of that old Dropbox "ShowHN" post. Looking back at old emails takes some heart, I'm afraid of the idea as I'd probably cringe too hard. My Reddit account just had it's "cakeday" which means I'm in the "9th year club" and the idea I have comments from 9 years ago still publicly available kind of scares me. Too the point where I feel motivated to write a script to delete anything beyond >1-2yrs back. Old com…
> My Reddit account [has] comments from 9 years ago still publicly available > motivated to write a script to delete anything beyond >1-2yrs back. Interesting that HN doesn't allow deletion of older comments; your account here appears to be roughly that same age. It has also become a thing recently to cleanup Twitter history: I just deleted 36K tweets | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13731227
Yep and he's got 15000 karma, that's pretty impressive. Just getting my karma to 1000 took me a couple of years.
I wonder how many people have > 10k karma in HN.
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
> My Reddit account [has] comments from 9 years ago still publicly available > motivated to write a script to delete anything beyond >1-2yrs back. Interesting that HN doesn't allow deletion of older comments; your account here appears to be roughly that same age. It has also become a thing recently to cleanup Twitter history: I just deleted 36K tweets | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13731227
Yep and he's got 15000 karma, that's pretty impressive. Just getting my karma to 1000 took me a couple of years. I wonder how many people have > 10k karma in HN.
Here is the top 100; lowest is currently ~22800: https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders
There are a few navel-gazing discussions; they are usually flagged by the moderators.
Top 100 Users on Hacker News by H-Index | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11512455
Re: Y Combinator When No One Cared
#15Reminds me of that old Dropbox "ShowHN" post. Looking back at old emails takes some heart, I'm afraid of the idea as I'd probably cringe too hard. My Reddit account just had it's "cakeday" which means I'm in the "9th year club" and the idea I have comments from 9 years ago still publicly available kind of scares me. Too the point where I feel motivated to write a script to delete anything beyond >1-2yrs back. Old com…
Or not worry by by having compassion for yourself that you're in the same boat as everyone else, and as long as you're improving and growing - then that's great!
Re: Y Combinator When No One Cared
#16Reminds me of that old Dropbox "ShowHN" post. Looking back at old emails takes some heart, I'm afraid of the idea as I'd probably cringe too hard. My Reddit account just had it's "cakeday" which means I'm in the "9th year club" and the idea I have comments from 9 years ago still publicly available kind of scares me. Too the point where I feel motivated to write a script to delete anything beyond >1-2yrs back. Old com…
Your reddit comments may have solutions to problems others have now. Don't delete them.
Here's the thing: No one cares what you posted nine years ago. Unless it was overly offensive and you became famous enough to get people to snoop, no one's going to look at your stuff. Yeah it's embarrassing, but you will get over it.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
He does not. He stopped at the same time he announced his retirement from YC. (He'd at this point transitioned the running of HN to dang.)
I miss pg. He was really cool. I understand why he left, I think, but... I miss your comments too! You should write more. Both essays and comments. I think it's easy to care too much about image and whether someone might stir up controversy. But you have genuinely interesting things to say. Even if HN doesn't feel like the kind of place you can say them, it still does a lot of good. I don't know. Sometimes it just fe…
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Re: Y Combinator When No One Cared
#18I cared. Still do. Been here over 10 years.
I'd wager for every person helped by YC, another 1000 were helped by HN. There are lots of us programmers in the diaspora whose closest encounter to Silicon Valley is virtual, in places just like this.
Yea, yea, I know. There are lots of founders, investors, and celebrities in SV, but please don't forget about the rest of us, who just keep building and posting...for years.
Re: Y Combinator When No One Cared
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
He does not. He stopped at the same time he announced his retirement from YC. (He'd at this point transitioned the running of HN to dang.)
I miss pg. He was really cool. I understand why he left, I think, but... I miss your comments too! You should write more. Both essays and comments. I think it's easy to care too much about image and whether someone might stir up controversy. But you have genuinely interesting things to say. Even if HN doesn't feel like the kind of place you can say them, it still does a lot of good. I don't know. Sometimes it just fe…
Yeah, they built a great thing...I think they sparked a revolution and empowered founders making vcs play fair. But, they're parents now and life is short, as the essay says....
Re: Y Combinator When No One Cared
#20And yet it felt completely obvious to many of us that were around since the beginning. YC, reddit, HN, and Dropbox are among the companies I definitely would have invested $1000 into, had the opportunity been available.
I predict the next generation of YC will be a scalable crowdfunding company. It will look more like a startup-focused Kickstarter than seed-stage Sequoia.