About two years ago I stumbled across Paul Graham's essays and started reading my way through them. One of them was "What I've learned from Hacker News" (http:/

About two years ago I stumbled across Paul Graham's essays and started reading my way through them. One of them was "What I've learned from Hacker News" (http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html)... That introduced me to HN. (At the time I was in a Third-World country with very limited Internet. HN, at ~10kb per page load, was one of the few sites I could afford to visit regularly. That helped to get me hooked ;-) )