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Re: Ask HN: What has HN given you?

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Throttling doesn't kick in until 50GB now (T-mobile One).

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Re: Ask HN: What has HN given you?

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Everything. Got my current job by helping someone on HN, got the motivation to go abroad by reading HN, inspired weekly by HN articles and comments.

Seriously, internet without Hacker News would suck. The community, administration, and ranking of the articles are just great to keep up to date with the tech field.

Re: Ask HN: What has HN given you?

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Nearly 5 years ago, a few months after being rejected from YC and a few weeks from being essentially bankrupt (my daughter had an unexpected surgery while we had only catastrophic health insurance), my brother and I posted a Show HN about Webflow ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5407499 ). It was our last-ditch attempt to show a proof-of-concept to the world before going back to our old bosses to ask for our jo…

What does YC stand for?

Re: Ask HN: What has HN given you?

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I'm fairly new here, but I've already fallen in love with the fact that there's all sorts of interesting discussions going on here, allowing you to find other's perspectives presented in a well written and respectful manner.

Re: Ask HN: What has HN given you?

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Inspiration...? I am quite new, have been learning to program less than a year. And posts, comments on HN, even on this post itself gives me the confidence to believe that I too make awesome things if I work hard, something that I crucially lacked in my life until now.

Re: Ask HN: What has HN given you?

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..full of people who's views differ from mine that I can have good arguments with.

> that I can have good arguments with That's the really special part. There's plenty of places to find people that have a differing opinion, but HN does the best job I've encountered of fostering good, substantive discussion. It doesn't always work, but it works here more often and on more subjects than anywhere else I've found. That "more subjects" part is important too, since unlike a smaller more focused forum, yo…

I think this happens mostly because the site looks so boring on the outside to anyone but tech professionals and hobbyists and proper nerds. This discourages the majority of people who would otherwise bring immaturity to HN. Thankfully it's not yet had its Eternal September [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

Re: Ask HN: What has HN given you?

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Nearly 5 years ago, a few months after being rejected from YC and a few weeks from being essentially bankrupt (my daughter had an unexpected surgery while we had only catastrophic health insurance), my brother and I posted a Show HN about Webflow ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5407499 ). It was our last-ditch attempt to show a proof-of-concept to the world before going back to our old bosses to ask for our jo…

What does YC stand for?

You might want to check the URL of the page you're on :)

Re: Ask HN: What has HN given you?

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It gave me a spectacular job (CTO of a 150-person YC company) and several job offers. I also hired quite a few engineers through HN. HN jobs (both the YC job postings and the monthly threads) really work! It's no exaggeration to say the site has shaped my life.

Re: Ask HN: What has HN given you?

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Nearly 5 years ago, a few months after being rejected from YC and a few weeks from being essentially bankrupt (my daughter had an unexpected surgery while we had only catastrophic health insurance), my brother and I posted a Show HN about Webflow ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5407499 ). It was our last-ditch attempt to show a proof-of-concept to the world before going back to our old bosses to ask for our jo…

What does YC stand for?

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