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Unfortunately, PG is of the opinion that he "finished" HN over a decade ago, which is why we don't get any iteration on the feature set here, no matter how usef

• dang 6y ago
  pg is referring there to October 2006, which is when HN was released (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1), so he must have meant that he'd "finished" it enough to release it. It can't mean "finished" the way you're interpreting it, because he continued working on HN code for years after that. Indeed, he added a major new feature (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7484304 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7484304) a few days before he left HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7493856 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7493856). As someone who's worked on HN code since then, I can tell you there's no such "mindset", nor is it true that "we don't get any iteration on the feature set here" (11 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25197418 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25197418). It is true, though, that most of the changes are subtle enough not to be so visible, including the ones I'm working on this evening. Most of the effort goes into attempting to improve, or at least preserve, the quality of submissions and comments.