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ThankYouHN: 14 Years

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ThankYouHN: 14 Years

#1

Post by solarized »

I don't remember exactly when I got hooked on HN—probably around mid-2009 or 2010. For the past 14 years, it's been the only serious social media I use and love.

HN has changed my perspective on engineering and the world, my life metrics, and ultimately given me wisdom. Anonymous arguments flourish beautifully here. No one cares who you are—only your argument matters.

It's helped me a lot with running my consulting business. I don’t have to repeat other people's mistakes or, even better, I can just copy proven systems and best practices. I've learned so many lessons and found incredibly useful links here.

The text-based format with upvotes and downvotes works beautifully. No fancy web frameworks—just pure HTML and CSS for my browser.

HN is the only tab in my Chrome that uses the least RAM but provides the most benefit to my daily info intake. Text mode keeps me focus to read & write content. No emojis, no stickers, no visual distraction !

I hope HN stays like this forever.

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#2

Post by keepamovin »

True, Dan Gackle should be rewarded with equity / in kind from so many of the people helped by this platform. The "capture the value you create" really applies here, and the model where that doesn't happen is wrong.

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#3

Post by windowshopping »

Don't know if I'd call this social media. Do people consider it as such?

Wikipedia says:

> Social media are interactive technologies that facilitate the creation, sharing and aggregation of content, ideas, interests, and other forms of expression through virtual communities and networks.

I guess it is, huh, what do you know. I'm so used to thinking of social media as facebook/twitter/instagram/tiktok, where people have individual feeds.

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#4

Post by hwbehrens »

keepamovin wrote: post #2

True, Dan Gackle should be rewarded with equity / in kind from so many of the people helped by this platform. The "capture the value you create" really applies here, and the model where that doesn't happen is wrong.

Truly, dang is the "secret sauce" in maintaining the HN ethos. It certainly helps that the commenters do their part to reflect the ecosystem that they want, but it's easy to underestimate the important role that even a little guidance/nudging plays in making that happen.

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#5

Post by srirangr »

Unreasonable effectiveness of simplicity and content moderation!

(Apologies for overusing the phrase but it just fits in the context)

Even I have been using it for the last 10 years and it's still the most important source of my information diet.

Re: ThankYouHN: 14 Years

#6

Post by hubraumhugo »

My own startup wouldn't exist if I hadn't made a HN post with a crappy MVP and received feedback from users, founders, and potential customers.

It's a very special place that successfully avoided its "Eternal September". I hope dang knows how much we appreciate his work to not let the quality go downhill.

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