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Re: Ask HN: Does Hacker News still do in person meet ups?

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Post by aaron695 »

HN is always frothing about WFH so wouldn't it contradict the central HN tenancy being with other human beings is bad?

Once upon a time HN was about creating things.

Create a meetup and see what happens? There's a lot of cool stuff you'd learn doing that.

See what other locations people around you use for meetups. Run one and iterate. Start as open as possible.

Re: Ask HN: Does Hacker News still do in person meet ups?

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Post by ravenstine »

Melatonic wrote: post #16

Wait - people still do IRL?!

I know, right? Meetup.com pretty much turned into OnlineOnly.com. After going online during the pandemic, my meetup members showed no interest in IRL meetups again after things calmed down, so I basically gave up figuring it's a sign of the times.

Re: Ask HN: Does Hacker News still do in person meet ups?

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Post by ravenstine »

shabbatt wrote: post #10

I would NOT want to meet anyone from here tbh. I fear what people write here are how they are in real life. Not saying they are bad people just from the bad takes and endless pedantic arguments are something I would quickly grow tired in a spoken conversation. You can skip over paragraphs but in real life you can't.

Bad takes can be hilarious, though. It's only a problem when the participants and audience aren't chill. Discussions where everyone thinks everyone else is wrong are fun when everyone's chill. I'd wager Redditors might not be the best group of people to have chill conversations with, but it's kind of surprising to me that someone would dismiss HN'ers that easily. But I guess some people just don't appreciate bad takes.

Also, I doubt that most people are going to focus on the pandemic at this point. It depends on where one lives, but even in LA most people have long since moved on from it, and no one wants to hear it at an IRL meetup revival.

Re: Ask HN: Does Hacker News still do in person meet ups?

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Post by quickthrower2 »

kickaha wrote: post #17
shabbatt wrote: post #10

I would NOT want to meet anyone from here tbh. I fear what people write here are how they are in real life. Not saying they are bad people just from the bad takes and endless pedantic arguments are something I would quickly grow tired in a spoken conversation. You can skip over paragraphs but in real life you can't.

But the beauty of it is that crap evaporates in real life. I don’t want to overstate it, of course, but the effect is always huge.

It would be a comedy sketch if you had a real meetup, but people using their "Hacker News" tone. Lot's of hot takes, fights. Maybe each person has a up and down vote button on their t shirt? Some boring conversation in the corner 2 people listen to. In 10 years time turns out it was the launch of Bitcoin, Figma or Dropbox or something.

Re: Ask HN: Does Hacker News still do in person meet ups?

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Post by ramesh31 »

robcohen wrote: post #3

I’m not aware of any events that successfully capture what HN is. If you want to make contacts, go to YC startup events and meet people. The smartest and most talented people aren’t usually wasting their time with general catch-all tech events. They’re on a mission and aim to meet people who can genuinely help them accomplish it. I’m not spitting at hackathon type events, but let’s be real — they target recent grads.…

The “work at a startup” meetups were fun, even if only to hear the pitches and see what Sam had to say.

Is that still a thing?

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