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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.
> Also, why does it say twitter.com and not x.com 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.
"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).
HN is the only internet community I’ve found to be largely good. Thank you to everyone for all your kind posts and comments, and intellectual discussion. Love to you all.
I like it enough to keep coming back, but lobste.rs is slightly preferable in my experience; more goodwill/less pedantry, and less Trumpelon apologism. (If you are gearing up to reply to the last three words of the previous paragraph, I can promise you I'm not interested in hearing it. You have your preferences and priorities, and I have mine)
Jessica is my hero. Paul is a guiding force. Every effort has some defect but it’s intention and effort which matters. World would be a very different place without YC. Thank you all !
>> but it’s intention and effort which matters. I think I understand what you're saying, but this is a very dangerous generality. I think the HOW matters more than the intent.
Who else applied to YC 15 times and never got an interview?
Also, thanks to @dang for keeping the community in-line with the rules/guidelines.
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No, that's formal. Formal systems that purport to answer all questions in advance are a bureaucratic bane, and as long as I'm in charge of HN, we won't go there. I'm confident that the community feels the same way. If there's any information that someone wants to find out about HN or HN moderation, all they need to do is ask us.
Dude, you're leaving people guessing. That's no good. That is not nice "informality".