The good old days, most fantastic. Now it's to degenerated into some combination of echo chamber and safe place, with no lively debate, certainly not about anything controversial. Very sad.
Happy 15th birthday Hacker News
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#42A lot of people hate on Hacker News but personally it's been very helpful for my life. Thanks for everything <3
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#43It feels like HN still upholds the early promise of the internet (along with Wikipedia and very small number of other websites). But what will the next 15 year bring about?
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#44The site which changed my life. Happy Birthday HN.
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#45The good old days, most fantastic. Now it's to degenerated into some combination of echo chamber and safe place, with no lively debate, certainly not about anything controversial. Very sad.
You're baiting flags and downvotes here, intentional or not. It will seem to confirm your faulty view of HN. Isn't that handy?
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#47Wasn’t there a thread recently (can’t find it) about the limit of paging back to the earliest posts and that it actually started in October or similar? And feb is just the earliest the UI will let you click to, so anniversary is actually past already? Not to be a party pooper =|
The first day of HN frontpage: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30200626
Top comment from the post announcing HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=124):
> Well its not a totally useless link submission...
Even our earliest comment ancestors had the signature HN venom.
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#48dang, that's an impressive amount of time to maintain quality content and discussions on the internet.
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#49HN is one of my favorite daily reads! Here's to the next 15 years and many more.
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#50The actual start was some time before that: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-09
Whoa! So weird to see pg and sama usernames as green!