Hearing about the latest tech just before my students mention them, so I at least vaguely know what they’re using to build their projects. This occurs uncannily often.
Ask HN: What has HN given you?
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#372"What have the Romans ever done for us?"
In all seriousness now, it helped me become an amateur dev (1 app in Apple store, 2 more on the way) and opened my mind to design principles, color selection, and many more.
Plus it keeps my mind sharp with both interesting articles/posts but MORE important, with the dialogues/comments. Truly positive and intelectually stimulating.
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#373I learned about Bitcoin here when it was just a whitepaper, but didn't recognize the opportunity then. A year ago, another user mentioned Monero so I looked into and discovered it's more "bitcoin" than Bitcoin and bought what I could. I'm not a millionaire, but it sure has helped me financially, so I'm really appreciative that I took advantage of that opportunity. EDIT: and for something a little more intrinsic: Ever…
I remember reading about meltdown and spectre here first, and thinking “huh, I should short intel stock before this goes public.” I was too green to understand just how far ahead HN is though, and I just watched instead as it all played out without me.
I think there's still a lot of uncertainty in this, given that Intel can benefit from everyone replacing their broken processors with new ones.
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#374HN, for me, is all about the comments. I’m always shopping for new perspectives or opinions that I haven’t seen yet that maybe give me a clue on how to do things better. People tend to give a lot of perspective in-between the words they’re writing. How people use, feel about or otherwise think about ‘things’ (products or services). That’s the gold here for me. Learning how people see the obviousness that I also see,…
I too find the comments to be the greatest part of HN. I used to use Slashdot for the same reason.
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#375Beyond learning a lot of stuff that I don't think I would of been introduced to and/or thought about looking for, it has given me 8.5 years of my favorite side-project to date with http://hackernewsletter.com . With it I've met a ton of folks and the best company to work for that I could of asked for.
Now that HN has their own weekly newsletter, how does yours compare?
As _dang_ mentioned, not sure which one you're referring to? That said, it is doing well and keeps growing. Hit 55k total subscribers this month.
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#376A business, a fulfilling job and some really happy customers!
At the beginning of 2015 I was waiting three weeks for GoDaddy to verify my company for an EV HTTPS cert. I spent 6 weeks coding a very minimal version of https://certsimple.com - it launched on the front page of HN on March 16th https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9210908, got it's first customers on that same day and has become my fulltime career for the last 3 years.
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#377I've been through a lot of web communities. HN is easily the most intellectual, respectful, and diverse. The simple reason is that we like to be here! In the same way that it takes a village to raise a child, your understanding of the world around you is drastically deepened by various points of view. I don't expect to find a better village anytime soon.
I would not say diverse though. This community is hugely biased towards an american, transhumanist point of view. There's an "european" minority who does not seems as egocentric (and libertarian maybe ?) as the majority, which is a bit reassuring. Anyways as much as I like HN and its often insightful comments, this has proven me that I would have a hard time living/working in the US as we don't share the same values…
What do you understand by "american, transhumanist" point of view?
And I am a european, though I don't see libertarian views beeing the majority at all ... rather the contrary ..
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#378We launched Intercom right here on HN and while I wouldn't say "the rest is history", I'm sure most folks here know the rest.
Fun fact here was our first post on it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2718354
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#379Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well -- not totally ad free. There are the job postings for YC companies.
HN job postings, at least those on the first of the month, are open to anyone, not just YC companies.
Besides the Hiring thread, there are links to job postings of YC companies that appear like regular stories, e.g.: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16404959
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#380Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nowhere near as high quality as it used to be though. I stopped my email digest there a year ago.
Yeah I agree with this. I've tried to use Quora before (about 2 years ago) but couldn't get my signal/noise ratio nearly as good as I wanted it to be
It was very good in the beginning.
Now it is mostly people trying to show off any way they can. And it attracted too many ... well, let's call them ordinary mainstream people.