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"Hacker News "works" because it's all a big job interview. The job in question is being someone PG thinks is cool. " I have to confess I find this a very stran
by plinkplonk 17y ago
"Hacker News "works" because it's all a big job interview. The job in question is being someone PG thinks is cool. "
I have to confess I find this a very strange way of thinking. I respect PG immensely, but I don't care if he thinks I am not "cool" and I am fairly sure he doesn't anyway. And that's perfectly fine -- I don't think I am cool why should he?
Do you really believe that most people here are trying to get PG's stamp of approval somehow? I suspect not.
- dfranke 17y agoWhat brandnewlow describes was definitely and obviously true in the very-early days of HN (then Startup News), like from its public opening in Feb '07 until the next couple funding cycle deadlines. At that time the readership consisted very heavily of YC-hopefuls, and the site was low-volume enough that any given comment had a very good chance of being read by PG. But HN has grown a lot since then, I get much less impression that this dynamic still holds.