Helsinki Hacker News Meetup • Hacker News Board

Re: Helsinki Hacker News Meetup

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Post by gpugreg » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 11:29 AM UTC

king_crimson wrote: post #20

Anyone who’d be interested in a meetup in Cologne?

Sure! But where?

Re: Helsinki Hacker News Meetup

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Post by patricjansson » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 11:29 AM UTC

toivo wrote: post #14

Would be interesting to join but have to get bit more karma :)

Mission accomplished Toivo karma: 84

Re: Helsinki Hacker News Meetup

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Post by dlojudice » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 11:31 AM UTC

great idea! pls, hnmeetup.com/[place] anyone?

Re: Helsinki Hacker News Meetup

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Post by 71153750 » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 11:31 AM UTC

I’m a student at Hive here in Helsinki and would love to attend. Lurking on HN for years but not nearly enough Karma. I’ve bookmarked the form for later however I’ll try my luck anyway with the form now. Very cool to know there is an HN meet up here!

Re: Helsinki Hacker News Meetup

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Post by qifzer » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 11:35 AM UTC

Hacker News London meets up on a semi-regular basis. They have recently moved from Meetup to Luma:

https://luma.com/calendar/cal-plFkEeW4fsaL5Nx

Re: Helsinki Hacker News Meetup

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Post by rrr_oh_man » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 11:35 AM UTC

block_dagger wrote: post #10

64 karma requirement? Pfft. I’d go to a 1k min karma meetup tho ;)

I refuse to join any meetup where some like me meets the karma requirements.

Re: Helsinki Hacker News Meetup

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Post by shrubby » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 11:41 AM UTC

wissio wrote: post #44

Ironically, a karma threshold will rule out most Finns

Damn right:D

Re: Helsinki Hacker News Meetup

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Post by tommica » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 11:44 AM UTC

Man, if I still lived in Finland, I'd absolutely want to go! Seems like a fantastic idea!

Re: Helsinki Hacker News Meetup

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Post by mr_mitm » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 11:48 AM UTC

icy wrote: post #35

BonerWiener wrote: post #33

> We use a WhatsApp group for co-ordination I would've gladly joined if you hadn't decided on a service owned by Meta...

It initially begun as an email thread, but we settled on WhatsApp owing to, well, most people having WhatsApp.

Surely e-mail is even more widely used?

Re: Helsinki Hacker News Meetup

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Post by calpaterson » Wed, Aug 05, 2026, 11:49 AM UTC

Hamuko wrote: post #48

RicoElectrico wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am not from the area but the deliberations about which messaging platform is kosher are an enormous time waste for every bottom-up organization, especially FOSS projects or hacker spaces.

As a Finn, I've definitely had to say the phrase "No, I don't have WhatsApp" more times than I care to count. That being said, I imagine a FOSS project or hacker space to be more cognisant of WhatsApp's ownership than a car dealership trying to sell me a used car via video call. I got rid of my WhatsApp precisely because Meta started tweaking the terms of service.

There is a conscientious objector to every communication system. As was said above: WhatsApp had the fewest.