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Re: Happy 20th birthday, Y Combinator

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Post by RGamma »

zfg wrote: post #144
light_triad wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

dang is an amazing moderator

Nah, he's become a cynic. dang thinks Hacker News is a "swamp of amnesia". It's not a great attitude.

The "amnesia problem" needs active effort to counteract. Without longitudinal story-telling like you would get in a well-maintained wiki or book, it's inevitable eventually...

I think it's become a huge society-scale problem caused by information overload, and I don't see it improving any time soon.

Re: Happy 20th birthday, Y Combinator

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Post by dmos62 »

I'll use the opportunity to thank everyone for Hacker News: YC, the community, and dang. For me, it's been a special place with a special culture. No other community has provided me intellectual and social stimulation so consistently.

Re: Happy 20th birthday, Y Combinator

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Post by pclmulqdq »

ant6n wrote: post #115
light_triad wrote: post #50

There's going to be a lot of "the big successes already happened" type comments about YC but I think they're wrong. Sure all big successes are unique in time, and entrepreneurship & web tech are mainstream now. But there's still lots of industries to disrupt. What gets harder is that the level of expertise needed to disrupt an industry is now much higher. You didn't need to work in hotels to create Airbnb, or a bank…

I‘m not so sure YC is really targeting industry experts in their fields who are doing startups, or?

YC wants to target established industry experts (every investor does), but I am not sure their median founder is over 25.

Re: Happy 20th birthday, Y Combinator

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Post by eru »

junon wrote: post #258
subless wrote: post #202

Also, thanks to @dang for keeping the community in-line with the rules/guidelines.

@dang is far and away the best community manager / moderator I've personally seen or interacted with on the internet. Nothing is ever black and white, but he makes managing that look easy. Huge respect.

Dang is great!

Btw, Scott Alexander also does a pretty good job.

Re: Happy 20th birthday, Y Combinator

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Post by eru »

matsemann wrote: post #49
Diederich wrote: post #11

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1 is always fun to look at, 18.5 years ago.

1 indexed? Edit: HN is apparently written in Arc, a dialect of Lisp.

And Arc is (or was?) implemented in Racket, another language in the Lisp family and closely related to Scheme.
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