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Re: Happy 20th birthday, Y Combinator

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Post by lisper »

scubbo wrote: post #159
callc wrote: post #143

HN 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.

I like it enough to keep coming back, but lobste.rs is slightly preferable in my experience; more goodwill/less pedantry, and less Trumpelon apologism. (If you are gearing up to reply to the last three words of the previous paragraph, I can promise you I'm not interested in hearing it. You have your preferences and priorities, and I have mine)

Thanks for the lobsters link. May I request an invite?

Re: Happy 20th birthday, Y Combinator

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Post by Karrot_Kream »

antirez wrote: post #141

[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 t…

Agreed. HN was how I learned about tech growing up in poverty (back when I used to think Googlers all wore lab coats!) and gave me the inspiration to both study CS and pursue the career I was lucky enough to end up in. The bigger HN gets the more it has qualities I don't really like, but it's also the last text platform I consume without curation on my part. (I know dang and the mod team do a heroic job, but I do very little curation of my own here, unlike Bluesky, X, or Discord where I do a lot of things to keep my feeds/channels useful to me.)

Re: Happy 20th birthday, Y Combinator

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Post by lisper »

submeta wrote: post #127

Started 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…

> I screwed up my third startup

You're half way there.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42771676

Re: Happy 20th birthday, Y Combinator

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Post by pyb »

pclmulqdq wrote: post #76
pyb wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Dropbox and Airbnb were superhot companies within 2 or 3 years after YC. My first Airbnb booking was in 2013, and that I felt like a late adopter.

Yes, but average time to unicorn status has been increasing since the time of Dropbox and Airbnb. I assume you can draw more inferences from companies that are earlier-stage, too.

If you read their tweets, YC's message is that their companies are growing faster than ever

Re: Happy 20th birthday, Y Combinator

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Post by sam0x17 »

antirez wrote: post #141

[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 t…

I agree. For me though it was only when slashdot started to shrink that I heard about HN, so I was a bit late to the party. To be fair, I still check slashdot almost daily!

Re: Happy 20th birthday, Y Combinator

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antirez wrote: post #141

[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 t…

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Re: Happy 20th birthday, Y Combinator

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submeta wrote: post #127

Started 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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Re: Happy 20th birthday, Y Combinator

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Post by closewith »

tempaccount420 wrote: post #157
mempko wrote: post #156

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a good community. The part I struggle with is the anti-science trend I've seen here over the last 10 years.

For me, it's the politics. There's a certain kind of user that keeps pushing them here, to people who don't care about them, and which are barely related to technology if even. If you point it out, they will say "everything is political"...

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