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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 :)
I worked with pg in a three-person startup in a basement in Harvard square just before he started YC. I was an undergrad at MIT and met him after arguing with rtm (who was a TA for my class) about TCP backoff. It was called Aspra and we were trying to build an app development platform for mobile phones. The idea was that you could build an application that could "render" to either an IVR system, for dumb phones, or t…
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Dan's moderation practices are viewable via his comment history*. They align well with my preferences, but, with a little imagination, I can see how some people wouldn't like them. One person's idea of good moderation is another person's terrible moderation. * https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=dang
You're not seeing everything he does. For example, he removes capabilities from people's accounts and he can't remember why he did it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42917749 He says he likes things to be "informal" by which he really means "opaque".
What we don't do is try to answer all the questions in advance. That's for several reasons, the first of which is that it's impossible.
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You're not seeing everything he does. For example, he removes capabilities from people's accounts and he can't remember why he did it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42917749 He says he likes things to be "informal" by which he really means "opaque".
By informal I do not mean opaque. What I mean is that anyone is welcome to ask questions about HN and we're happy to answer them. What we don't do is try to answer all the questions in advance. That's for several reasons, the first of which is that it's impossible.
That's opaque.
Why did they post on X? Most of the people on there probably think HN is a Soros front. Also, why does it say twitter.com and not x.com? Would have been better just to post a link from their blog.
HN's software rewrites URLs back to twitter.com for two reasons: (1) people still call it Twitter colloquially, which is the real measure of what a thing is called; and (2) anything else feels weird.
Also, thanks to @dang for keeping the community in-line with the rules/guidelines.
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By informal I do not mean opaque. What I mean is that anyone is welcome to ask questions about HN and we're happy to answer them. What we don't do is try to answer all the questions in advance. That's for several reasons, the first of which is that it's impossible.
But you're not willing to be upfront by including that information on the user's account. That's opaque.
If there's any information that someone wants to find out about HN or HN moderation, all they need to do is ask us.
[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…
ciao I still use newsgroups (NNTP) and IRC everyday, hackernews is pretty good considered it's HTTP based