My HN account is 18 years old. Still no successful businesses to speak of after a few attempts. Have started an NGO instead to promote better urban planning and design.
Happy 20th birthday, Y Combinator
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Re: Happy 20th birthday, Y Combinator
#112HN has been my very favorite website that I consciously open every day since last ~15 years. It is the portal to get the ambient and relevant view of the techland. I love the near-non-BS nature of it. And even though the techland changes, HN itself has had very little change, so it acts somewhat safe stable ground/forum/club for observing the ever changing techland. Although I recognize there is somewhat minimal degr…
You visit every day for 15 years and never left a comment? That's kinda crazy. It makes me wonder if this is actually common and we don't realize.
I remember reading a stat on reddit that 10% of users upvote and 1% of users comment. So if my memory is (near) accurate, that's very common behavior.
Re: Happy 20th birthday, Y Combinator
#113HN has been my very favorite website that I consciously open every day since last ~15 years. It is the portal to get the ambient and relevant view of the techland. I love the near-non-BS nature of it. And even though the techland changes, HN itself has had very little change, so it acts somewhat safe stable ground/forum/club for observing the ever changing techland. Although I recognize there is somewhat minimal degr…
You visit every day for 15 years and never left a comment? That's kinda crazy. It makes me wonder if this is actually common and we don't realize.
If you comment once on HN you are easily in the top 5% of users by comment count.
Re: Happy 20th birthday, Y Combinator
#114Happy birthday, YC!
There isn’t a website on the internet that I’ve learned more from than this one.
Thank you.
Re: Happy 20th birthday, Y Combinator
#115There's going to be a lot of "the big successes already happened" type comments about YC but I think they're wrong. Sure all big successes are unique in time, and entrepreneurship & web tech are mainstream now. But there's still lots of industries to disrupt. What gets harder is that the level of expertise needed to disrupt an industry is now much higher. You didn't need to work in hotels to create Airbnb, or a bank…
I‘m not so sure YC is really targeting industry experts in their fields who are doing startups, or?
Re: Happy 20th birthday, Y Combinator
#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
You visit every day for 15 years and never left a comment? That's kinda crazy. It makes me wonder if this is actually common and we don't realize.
I remember reading a stat on reddit that 10% of users upvote and 1% of users comment. So if my memory is (near) accurate, that's very common behavior.
The 90-9-1 rule, which is common across many mass-participation media modalities, not just online.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=90-9-1_rule>
Re: Happy 20th birthday, Y Combinator
#117Long live Y Combinator, the source of endless inspiration and innovation.
Re: Happy 20th birthday, Y Combinator
#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
> HN has been my very favorite website that I consciously open every day since last ~15 years. It is the portal to get the ambient and relevant view of the techland. I bet a lot of people here would say the same thing about Slashdot ten to fifteen years ago. @HN: Thanks and please don't change.
HN has outlasted Slashdot by a wide margin at this point. IIRC, Slashdot stopped being great around the same time as the decline of the Digg era. It started to sink in quality around 2007, which gave it ten years at most of being a central part of the online tech community (1997 - 2007). I started reading HN in 2008. It's lasted nearly twenty years as an incredible community. Here are some graphs: https://nwn.blogs.c…
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Re: Happy 20th birthday, Y Combinator
#119On Twitter, with all that's going on?
One of the things that makes HN great is that it largely avoids the Current Thing discussion.
There's plenty of places to get into that. Can't we have one that's focused entirely on hacker news and not any political news?
Re: Happy 20th birthday, Y Combinator
#120HN has been my very favorite website that I consciously open every day since last ~15 years. It is the portal to get the ambient and relevant view of the techland. I love the near-non-BS nature of it. And even though the techland changes, HN itself has had very little change, so it acts somewhat safe stable ground/forum/club for observing the ever changing techland. Although I recognize there is somewhat minimal degr…
You visit every day for 15 years and never left a comment? That's kinda crazy. It makes me wonder if this is actually common and we don't realize.
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