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Re: Happy 20th birthday, Y Combinator

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Post by mezi »

0xCE0 wrote: post #102

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 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…

Same here. I have been reading this site for 10 years and even though it got a bit worse, it's still the best source out there. Keep it up everyone.

Re: Happy 20th birthday, Y Combinator

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Post by dang »

hakaneskici wrote: post #121
redox99 wrote: post #108

Earlier 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'm at ~19 years - HN as daily home page since inception :) Before HN, I used to hang out on Joel on Software and Eric's Business of Software forums; I occasionally used to post there and here but lost old accounts. If you have friends who have friends who has HN archeology skills and access, maybe I can recover my old account :)

We can try to dig up your old account if you want! You're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com, or if you want to "do it live", post here and we can ask for the community's help if needed.

Re: Happy 20th birthday, Y Combinator

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Post by dang »

declan_roberts wrote: post #119
dredmorbius wrote: post #40

On 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?

(hmm that's a frequently asked question; I wonder if we should have a list of such things)

If you want to know how we think about this, here's a pointer to a bunch of past explanations:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

Re: Happy 20th birthday, Y Combinator

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Post by nniroclax »

redox99 wrote: post #108
0xCE0 wrote: post #102

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 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.

Absolutely. Some of us see (or at least I see) the level of discussion and feel it would be hard for me to say something worthwhile that sounds kinda smart. So I mostly lurk while being grateful for those who do write incredibly insightful comments.

Re: Happy 20th birthday, Y Combinator

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Post by hakaneskici »

dang wrote: post #132
hakaneskici wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm at ~19 years - HN as daily home page since inception :) Before HN, I used to hang out on Joel on Software and Eric's Business of Software forums; I occasionally used to post there and here but lost old accounts. If you have friends who have friends who has HN archeology skills and access, maybe I can recover my old account :)

We can try to dig up your old account if you want! You're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com, or if you want to "do it live", post here and we can ask for the community's help if needed.

Thank you so much! Sent an email :)

Re: Happy 20th birthday, Y Combinator

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Post by romanhn »

redox99 wrote: post #108
0xCE0 wrote: post #102

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 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.

Very common. I was a daily reader of Slashdot for ten years without ever creating an account. Took me only five to create one for HN :)

Re: Happy 20th birthday, Y Combinator

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Post by hakaneskici »

alberth wrote: post #46

"Founders at Work", written by Jessica is what got me into HN (and I was an initial lurker for quite sometime). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Founders_at_Work Note: YC didn't have HN to begin with, it was launched 1-year later (Oct 2006 as seen by pg profile). And the book was launched the subsequent year (2007). https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pg

Such an inspiring book - I still have it by my desk :) I bought it because they covered Joel's FogBugz and 37Signal's Basecamp (I was building a competitor product back then).

Re: Happy 20th birthday, Y Combinator

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Post by 0xCE0 »

thom wrote: post #99

Founders - what would the ideal accelerator (or call it what you like) look like today?

I'd say the only real reasons any founder needs "accelerator"/any kind of VC firm is lack of money and/or domain-specific professional help/mentoring when encountering a problem that seems to be too hard to overcome by yourself.

So, ideal accelerator/VC would be one that would want to fund your (ad)venture without taking too much motivation off by having large ownership/control, and have connections/pool of domain-specific professional expertise. And wants to believe in you.

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