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Announcing Y Combinator Startup News (2007)

• ramblenode 10y ago
  > You can tell a lot about the users of a site like this from the the links they post and their comments in discussions. There are a number of Reddit users that I know only by their usernames, but I know must be smart from the things they've written. We're counting on the same phenomenon to help us decide who to fund. It sounds like "karma" may have a deeper meaning than on Reddit. Do good things--they may literally pay off one day.
  • elmigranto 10y ago
    > Do good things I think popular ones would be more accurate.
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  • legulere 10y ago
    It will show them, that you spend way too much time on hacker news reading and commenting stuff.
• chaostheory 10y ago
  https://news.ycombinator.com/hackernews.html https://news.ycombinator.com/hackernews.html
  • kasbah 10y ago
    > Each user's voting power will then be scaled based on whether they vote for good stories or bad ones. I guess they gave up on that? Would be interesting to hear how it panned out.
• pori 10y ago
  The community sure has come along way. I appreciate that the design is still pretty much the same. Even still running on Arc lang!