YC changed my life, and I'll be forever grateful to PG, Jessica, and the team for taking a chance on a homeschooled, GED-wielding solo founder.
I keep forgetting there's a front page to this website. What a cool story!
Happy 20th birthday, Y Combinator
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Re: Happy 20th birthday, Y Combinator
#82Appreciate this community. HBD Y!
Re: Happy 20th birthday, Y Combinator
#83HN has been an outstanding corner of the Internet, seemingly invulnerable to all the trash that has consumed the rest. I'd love to know how HN has avoided the bots and the spam, while retaining a simple and elegant login process.
Re: Happy 20th birthday, Y Combinator
#84HN has been an outstanding corner of the Internet, seemingly invulnerable to all the trash that has consumed the rest. I'd love to know how HN has avoided the bots and the spam, while retaining a simple and elegant login process.
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Re: Happy 20th birthday, Y Combinator
#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
A) Very true! B) peaked* :) C) Can you think of any tech companies from the last 10 years that were successful? The answer is ultimately "they exist, but the victory condition is to be bought by MANGA, so you don't remember them even if you heard about them in the first place." EDIT: to add more context, this is a great post: https://jaredheyman.medium.com/on-the-176-annual-return-of-a... The TL;DR is that Stripe & A…
> Can you think of any tech companies from the last 10 years that were successful? OpenAI and Anthropic come to mind
That’s… fair, I guess. Both are majority controlled by MANGA, but they are indeed new companies. That’s kinda illuminating: it takes the breakthrough of the century to establish a new name these days, and even then you’ll probably end up selling slices of yourself to the giants.
Re: Happy 20th birthday, Y Combinator
#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
A) Very true! B) peaked* :) C) Can you think of any tech companies from the last 10 years that were successful? The answer is ultimately "they exist, but the victory condition is to be bought by MANGA, so you don't remember them even if you heard about them in the first place." EDIT: to add more context, this is a great post: https://jaredheyman.medium.com/on-the-176-annual-return-of-a... The TL;DR is that Stripe & A…
> tech companies from the last 10 years that were successful? Discord, Anduril, CoreWeave, Veho, MoneyBox, Peak, Marshmallow.
Discord is cool! Anduril is both evil and overvalued. The rest… I mean, I think the names speak for themselves ;)
Re: Happy 20th birthday, Y Combinator
#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
> tech companies from the last 10 years that were successful? Discord, Anduril, CoreWeave, Veho, MoneyBox, Peak, Marshmallow.
Discord is cool! Anduril is both evil and overvalued. The rest… I mean, I think the names speak for themselves ;)
what do their names say to you?
Re: Happy 20th birthday, Y Combinator
#88Hacker News is just 19 years old? I remember my professor at university mentioning it when I told him I am using .net for my project. According to him I should use OS language like Java and recommended me to HN. I thought it is much older. Time flies. I wonder if he is raeading HN still...
Y Combinator is 19 years old. Hacker News was launched in February 2007, so it just turned 18.
For the longest time I thought Hacker News must have been some proof of concept for Reddit and must pre-date it, which is not true. Reddit was launched in June 2005, shortly after Y Combinator.
Re: Happy 20th birthday, Y Combinator
#89HN has been an outstanding corner of the Internet, seemingly invulnerable to all the trash that has consumed the rest. I'd love to know how HN has avoided the bots and the spam, while retaining a simple and elegant login process.
A benevolent dictator.
Re: Happy 20th birthday, Y Combinator
#90I sometimes forget that this is a venture capitalist website with a weirdly computer science name. Okay fine. You can have this one day, main YC website.