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Ask HN: Who established the "Ask HN" tradition? or How was it established
Hi guys I'm relatively new to HN community, but I'm here to stay, for good.
So recently I did a post and someone informed me about adding the "Ask HN" in front of a question, which I felt was kinda neat because it seems like a tradition establish by the people of the community, which really fascinates me.
Any HN oldies know how this tradition got started?
thanks!
- e1ven 16y agoI can't answer definitively, but I can say that it took a while to evolve. At first, people just asked questions directly. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1007 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1007 After a while, a few users (myself included) started using "Ask News.YC:" (The site wasn't called Hacker News yet. It was Startup News, but we all thought of it more as an extension to YC, than it's own property) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4641 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4641 Eventually it became a shorthand way of addressing the community, and wiki were created. http://remembersaurus.com/askhn.html http://remembersaurus.com/askhn.html http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/startupswiki/Ask_YC_Archive http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/startupswiki/Ask_YC_Archive