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From what I can tell, YCombinator has 3 main purposes: 1. Teaching people that money is the only thing in the universe that matters 2. Starting companies, or
by pgcj_poster 7y ago
From what I can tell, YCombinator has 3 main purposes:
1. Teaching people that money is the only thing in the universe that matters
2. Starting companies, or whatever
3. Funding Hacker News
Well, in our modern age, we don't need YCombinator to do those things. You can learn (1) just by reading Hacker News comments, and people do (2) without YCombinator all the time. Therefore, we can replace YCombinator just by finding someone else to run Hacker News. But as it turns out, there's an innovative organization lobste.rs, that's willing to do just that. You can read more about why we don't need YCombinator in this book[1], written by one of the world's leading economists.
[1] amazon.com/dp/0140445684/
- ryan93 7y agoSome weird people out there
- pushcx 7y agoHuh? Lobsters doesn't replace HN. Not just in the obvious, practical sense that HN is 100x bigger on any metric than Lobsters, but also in a theoretical sense, because our definition of topicality is a strict subset of HN's. And we're not trying to replace HN. And we're not an organization, or even particularly organized. If you think HN should be replaced... maybe try doing that, rather than contributing to it? (Context: I'm the admin of Lobsters.)