I asked pg directly whether he was nickb, and he said no. More specifically, he said “not only was I not nickb, but I have no idea who he was.” pg is many thin

I asked pg directly whether he was nickb, and he said no. More specifically, he said “not only was I not nickb, but I have no idea who he was.” pg is many things, and he has bent the truth occasionally, but a liar he isn’t. Make of that whatever you will; it’s the closest you’ll get to an answer. However, the early secret sauce of HN was to hunt for stories manually and to keep the front page interesting every day. (It’s today’s secret sauce too.) One person can do it, but they’d have to spend several hours per day, like a full time job.