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Re: Official Hacker News T-Shirt

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Post by rplnt »

lancefisher wrote: post #29
jug6ernaut wrote: post #12

I don't really get this T, i understand its going for minimalism, but would someone who frequents HN recognize it if they did not already know its affiliation?(i wouldn't) & if the answer is no, then whats the point of the T? Edit for clarity: Not knocking the cause, it is great. Just the design really, maybe im missing something.

You can write your own username in with a sharpie. :) I would recognize this for the colors and shape. I do wish it came on a light-color T though.

T-shirt with a color of the background only (#F6F6EF) with an orange strip? Minimalistic-ier.

Re: Official Hacker News T-Shirt

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Post by nym »

pg wrote: post #23

It seemed particularly appropriate for the HN t-shirt to raise money for Watsi, since you guys in a sense discovered Watsi. They'd had some publicity before, but it was after their highly upvoted post on HN that their growth really took off. That was also how we found out about them.

Too bad they don't integrate with Coinbase.com!

Re: Official Hacker News T-Shirt

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Post by avgarrison »

kyro wrote: post #69

Will there be a higher-grade customizable offering for us high-karma old timers who haven't seen a top bar in that color for years? I'd hate to associate myself with all these Orange Bars. Buying, nonetheless. Not to wear in public, of course.

What color do you see? I never realized that the bar changes color.

Re: Official Hacker News T-Shirt

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Post by wiwillia »

nym wrote: post #72
pg wrote: post #23

It seemed particularly appropriate for the HN t-shirt to raise money for Watsi, since you guys in a sense discovered Watsi. They'd had some publicity before, but it was after their highly upvoted post on HN that their growth really took off. That was also how we found out about them.

Too bad they don't integrate with Coinbase.com!

We're working on accepting Bitcoin through Coinbase, just wasn't quite ready for this tee!

Re: Official Hacker News T-Shirt

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Post by mintplant »

wiwillia wrote: post #41
lancefisher wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can write your own username in with a sharpie. :) I would recognize this for the colors and shape. I do wish it came on a light-color T though.

Hi lance, we just added a grey option on checkout!

Is there a way to see a preview of what the grey option would look like?

Re: Official Hacker News T-Shirt

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Post by [deleted] »

nym wrote: post #72
pg wrote: post #23

It seemed particularly appropriate for the HN t-shirt to raise money for Watsi, since you guys in a sense discovered Watsi. They'd had some publicity before, but it was after their highly upvoted post on HN that their growth really took off. That was also how we found out about them.

Too bad they don't integrate with Coinbase.com!

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Re: Official Hacker News T-Shirt

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Post by mturmon »

jug6ernaut wrote: post #12

I don't really get this T, i understand its going for minimalism, but would someone who frequents HN recognize it if they did not already know its affiliation?(i wouldn't) & if the answer is no, then whats the point of the T? Edit for clarity: Not knocking the cause, it is great. Just the design really, maybe im missing something.

If you have to ask, you aren't ever going to know.

Re: Official Hacker News T-Shirt

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Post by antirez »

scoot wrote: post #43
pg wrote: post #23

It seemed particularly appropriate for the HN t-shirt to raise money for Watsi, since you guys in a sense discovered Watsi. They'd had some publicity before, but it was after their highly upvoted post on HN that their growth really took off. That was also how we found out about them.

And by the same token raises visibility of Teespring, a current YC startup. The question was raised in the HN DDoS thread about what value YC derives from HN, so there are two examples right there - discovery and promotion of investment opportunities.

That's not bad per-se IMHO, after all still HN even with the "ghost news" appearing and all the rest is a decent place.

What is a big issue IMHO is that, given it's starting to be obvious how important is to have a completely neutral HN-style news site for hackers world-wide, nobody tried to do a serious no-profit to create a replacement that is able to guarantee a more democratic and not interested management.

So YC does a good job at taking HN not too business-driven, but still HN community does a very poor job at trying to start something completely not-business-related.

Re: Official Hacker News T-Shirt

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Post by spydum »

all that's missing is for a DMCA takedown notice to replace this page in a few hours, and a new thread of about three-hundred responses saying that copyright is destroying our freedom, followed by someone downloading the design and making it available via torrents to set it free!

Re: Official Hacker News T-Shirt

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Post by shin_lao »

jug6ernaut wrote: post #12

I don't really get this T, i understand its going for minimalism, but would someone who frequents HN recognize it if they did not already know its affiliation?(i wouldn't) & if the answer is no, then whats the point of the T? Edit for clarity: Not knocking the cause, it is great. Just the design really, maybe im missing something.

You're saying that because it doesn't show your karma points.
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