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Re: Happy 15th birthday Hacker News

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Post by CSMastermind »

jacquesm wrote: post #78
tannhaeuser wrote: post #27

Took me a while to find out where the cool kids had gone from Slashdot back then ;) Speaking of which, let's keep HN a liberal and welcoming place also for corps/startups (but not astroturfers) where key developers, experts from non-IT, CEOs/CTOs can have a voice as that's what makes HN unique IMO.

We even got the root node ;) https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cmdrtaco

Wow that's a name I haven't thought about in a long time.

I was in high school in the early 2000s and Slashdot was like a haven for me.

I grew up in a town where I didn't know anyone in technology, let alone professional programmers.

But thanks to the internet I could get onto Slashdot and talk to other nerds and interact with real live professional programmers.

I haven't logged into my account in years but in hindsight that site meant a huge amount to me.

Re: Happy 15th birthday Hacker News

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Post by elihu »

sophacles wrote: post #188
mindcrime wrote: post #102

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Hah... I remember feeling shameful about my 5 digit /. UID because everybody knew the real OG's had 4 digit ones! God that brings back memories. I checked my /. profile just now and see that I still have an AIM id and an ICQ id listed there. Yikes. And the email address points to a domain I haven't owned in like 15 years. At least the jabber address I had listed is actually still active.

I remember refreshing slashdot to see the announcement introducing accounts. Teenage me decided to be one of the "the concept of accounts on this site is dumb" folks. (For months after slashdot introduced accounts there were all sorts of AnonymousCowards talking about how dumb the idea was). Eventually I relented and got my 5 digit uid. Years later I would cringe thinking about it, knowing I had an opportunity for a…

Kuro5hin was amazing until the trolls took over. I really liked the idea of people writing stories and have them subject to editorial comments before they go live. That's sort of what my mental model of what citizen journalism should look like, and what modern scientific journals should be like. I haven't seen anyone do anything quite like it since, which is a shame.

Another site, less known than kuro5hin that was great for awhile was called Jyte. You just post whatever random statement you want, and people can vote "agree" or "disagree". The community was amazing. It was kind of like a game where you try to find some issue where reasonable people are roughly equally split. It was also something where you could just interject any topic you like for any reason. Maybe that's what people get out of twitter -- I don't use it myself.

Re: Happy 15th birthday Hacker News

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Post by capableweb »

misiti3780 wrote: post #170
globile wrote: post #80

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Was also here on the 1st day, the same day I decided to start-up 15 years ago! Took me 7 years to create an account though. Wish I had done it sooner! Especially ALWAYS reading the comments BEFORE the actual articles! Thanks!

how did people hear about it back then?

I've only been on HN since around ~2009 or something like that (11 years), but most people I've met in real-life who are also on HN have been recommended to visit the site first time from fellow hackers, rather than via other websites.

Re: Happy 15th birthday Hacker News

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Post by benhoyt »

I very much appreciate this site, the stuff I've learned and been able to share, and the excellent just-the-right-amount moderation. I just checked, and it looks like I joined on 2007-02-21, cool!

Re: Happy 15th birthday Hacker News

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ahelwer wrote: post #21

People (and myself) can rag on this website a lot but it really has changed the trajectory of my professional life. It’s where I: * first learned about CRDTs, kickstarting an interest in distributed systems * first learned about TLA+, kickstarting an interest in formal specification * first saw the book Quantum Computing Since Democritus recommended (in a post about Professor Sussman’s reading list), kickstarting an…

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Re: Happy 15th birthday Hacker News

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Post by benhoyt »

misiti3780 wrote: post #170
globile wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Was also here on the 1st day, the same day I decided to start-up 15 years ago! Took me 7 years to create an account though. Wish I had done it sooner! Especially ALWAYS reading the comments BEFORE the actual articles! Thanks!

how did people hear about it back then?

I was a reader of Paul Graham's essays and website, which I believe is where I heard about it. Or it might have been reddit (which I'm sure I heard about via PG). I joined Reddit on January 25, 2006 and HN on February 21, 2007.

Re: Happy 15th birthday Hacker News

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Post by npunt »

HN has been an amazing resource for my own personal development, and remains a reliable source for high quality content and discussion in certain topics. I think that has a lot to do with its smart design decisions and approach to moderation, and for that I'm very thankful.

One curiosity for a social site is that despite being pretty active here, and having some good exchanges, I've never actually connected with someone here. It's a forum rooted in ideas, not people, and that's reinforced by its product restraints: no avatars, no following, no DMs, no blackbox algorithms. I really appreciate that, vis-a-vis other parts of the internet, though I do occasionally wish I could connect with the people behind the ideas.

One funny quirk of being such an eng-oriented forum is a long time ago they let you sign up without an email, which meant when I lost my password I had to start a new account. I'd love to restore my original username.

Re: Happy 15th birthday Hacker News

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Post by ignoramous »

dmonitor wrote: post #191
ignoramous wrote: post #96

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See also, 1. Eternal September : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September 2. (and what I like to call) Eternal October : https://googlepress.blogspot.com/2000/10/google-launches-sel...

2016 was the third impact

TikTok? Ether?

Re: Happy 15th birthday Hacker News

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Post by Abishek_Muthian »

tannhaeuser wrote: post #27

Took me a while to find out where the cool kids had gone from Slashdot back then ;) Speaking of which, let's keep HN a liberal and welcoming place also for corps/startups (but not astroturfers) where key developers, experts from non-IT, CEOs/CTOs can have a voice as that's what makes HN unique IMO.

> let's keep HN a liberal and welcoming place also for corps/startups (but not astroturfers) where key developers, experts from non-IT, CEOs/CTOs can have a voice

I agree and I would also like to see more encouragement for solopreneurs. As financial independence through solopreneurship has a better probability of being achieved than creating an unicorn startup; especially when not having a safety-net.

So maybe less of 'Why are you making money' when an indie showcases their product, While defending bad practices of Trillion dollar mEga corps. as 'They have to make money'!

P.S. Happy birthday HN, Congratulations & thanks to P.G, Initial set of users, Current users and of course Dan.

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