Ask HN: What has HN given you? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What has HN given you?

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Post by kebman » Mon, Feb 19, 2018, 2:05 AM UTC

DanBC wrote: post #21

I got a few Amazon gift cards after some of my comments. That's always amazing, and surprising. (And if someone created a cryptocurrency tipping browser plugin for HN (that I can use on Firefox) I'd probably tip people small amounts here and there.) Someone got in touch about books for children and I got some nice recommendations. Someone else got in touch about some work they're doing around mental ill health. It wa…

I was really tempted to just post my bitcoin address here .... :p :D

Re: Ask HN: What has HN given you?

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Post by sukeesh » Mon, Feb 19, 2018, 2:07 AM UTC

I did a show HN in 2017 for one of my GitHub projects. https://github.com/sukeesh/Jarvis I now have 900 stars, 47 contributors. More importantly, it taught me the open source!

Re: Ask HN: What has HN given you?

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Post by mynameishere » Mon, Feb 19, 2018, 2:10 AM UTC

Nothing. And I've been here forever.

But what do you want? It's a message board.

Re: Ask HN: What has HN given you?

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Post by amygdyl » Mon, Feb 19, 2018, 2:10 AM UTC

BooneJS wrote: post #53

A reading list that I'll never be able to get through. Is there a service that turns reading lists to mp3s?

Azure's cognitive services, particularly because you can spend the free development dollars for a start:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/sp...

I have been very pleased with customer reviews when we used the service to custom voicemail greetings per caller for a call center app, where the client was losing too many tickets to SPAM filters, before we could move them to a new SMTP server. And afterwards, too.

Re: Ask HN: What has HN given you?

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Post by zitterbewegung » Mon, Feb 19, 2018, 2:11 AM UTC

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.

Re: Ask HN: What has HN given you?

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Post by mentos » Mon, Feb 19, 2018, 2:12 AM UTC

HN has given me confidence in my ideas. I've been able to take risks in my communication with peers and pitch ideas that without HN's upvotes I would have been too intimidated or insecure to share.

Re: Ask HN: What has HN given you?

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Post by cyberferret » Mon, Feb 19, 2018, 2:14 AM UTC

For me - Lots of learning. I live in an isolated area, and work from home alone, so there is a sense of community and sharing of knowledge that is valuable to me. I learn way more about new technology and directions in innovation on here than anywhere else on the internet. Signal to noise ratio is still pretty good.

Also like that it is still a pretty civil and respectful community - I know it is hard to ride that fine balance between censorship and freedom of expression, and I think the mods here do a good job under trying circumstances.

Re: Ask HN: What has HN given you?

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Post by _Chief » Mon, Feb 19, 2018, 2:17 AM UTC

Impostor syndrome. jk

Without HN, it's impossible to quantity how much tech/dev news I'd have missed out on. Plus, the comments are often even more insightful than the actual posts.

Re: Ask HN: What has HN given you?

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Post by p0larboy » Mon, Feb 19, 2018, 2:18 AM UTC

Submitted one of my first few article for my web dev blog, colintoh.com, many years back. It hit the front page and it really encourages me to write more until I didn't. Nowadays, the blog is used as both a personal dev resource and a resume.

Re: Ask HN: What has HN given you?

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Post by hkmurakami » Mon, Feb 19, 2018, 2:18 AM UTC

Met a good friend through the site.