[I guess the tweet refers to YC the incubator, not the web site of news, but I want to focus on the latter]: I registered on HN a few days after it was created. The HN community was incredibly instrumental to my career, my ability to keep up with the development community, with like-minded people, and to have a voice, the times my posts and projects reached this home page. Thank you, for for all of that. Now, I see that, inevitably, as this place becomes bigger and bigger, there is no longer that strange, odd and wonderful "90s News Groups" alike quality. Despite the decline, I still find quite some value visiting this place every day.
Happy 20th birthday, Y Combinator
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#142https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1 is always fun to look at, 18.5 years ago.
Fun there's enough posts in HN you could type your DOB (no leading zero) and find a submission for it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=52590
There are actually enough that you can type your DOB in the format YYYYMMDD and find a submission for it!
This has been true since https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=20190615 was posted on June 15, 2019.
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#143HN is the only internet community I’ve found to be largely good. Thank you to everyone for all your kind posts and comments, and intellectual discussion. Love to you all.
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#144HN 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.
dang is an amazing moderator
Nah, he's become a cynic. dang thinks Hacker News is a "swamp of amnesia". It's not a great attitude.
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#147On 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?
HN is increasingly a significant participant in current US politics. Attempting to pretend otherwise really doesn't work.
HN has a policy of moderating discussions of YC companies less than other threads (and yes, "less" != "not at all"). There's a strong argument that a similar policy should apply to HN-adjacent politics and political acts.
Posting to what was once called Twitter today is an increasingly political act. and a strongly anti-democratic one. Yang (as evidenced by his Wikipedia bio) is a political actor.
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#148HN is the only internet community I’ve found to be largely good. Thank you to everyone for all your kind posts and comments, and intellectual discussion. Love to you all.
Agreed. Thank you to all for the endless curious discussion.
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#149Started reading HN nine years ago, when I screwed up my third startup the year before, was devastated, and needed some inspiration. And among the shared news were stories that inspired me again, that made me come back to this site every single day ever since. I like the cultivated discussions, like the things I learn about, and I feel like I never miss any tech trend. Excellent community. Love it. Thank you PG, thank…
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#150I love this community, the only social media worth investing time into. Here's to another 20 years.