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I find this funny. I'll bite. Paul Graham created Hacker News. And is a founder of Y Combinator.
by 11thEarlOfMar 6y ago
I find this funny. I'll bite. Paul Graham created Hacker News. And is a founder of Y Combinator.
- wincy 6y agoI didn’t know this, and I’ve been using HN for years now, thanks for the information. I just thought Paul Graham was some super popular vaguely tech person.
- 11thEarlOfMar 6y agoI should have recalled this sooner, but it happened to me once, too. I was doing a product demo of a remotely operated device with a guy from AT&T. We were supposed to be able to communicate through the device but it wasn't working well. They'd just rolled out a new network and it was spotty. I suggested at one point that we use text messages as a back up for communicating and I actually asked him if he was ok with that. He says, 'Yeah, no problem. My name's on the patent.' 'huh?', 'I'm on the SMS patent.'
- zepto 6y agoYes, and when we say ‘created’ hacker news, he coded it himself in a dialect of lisp which he also coded just for this purpose.
- ajju 6y agoIs this a tongue in cheek reference to Ken Thompson’s trick in “reflections on trusting trust”? [1] if so, it wins the 2020 award for originality in HN conspiracy theories! 1 - https://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/hh/thompson/trust.html https://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/hh/thompson/trust.html
- zepto 6y agoNo. It’s just historical context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_(programming_language)
- ajju 6y agoGot it. I am aware of the history. I was reading too much into your comment. I thought you were joking that PG may have used the Thompson trick to juice scores for his posts on HN.
- zepto 6y agoHah. No. I don’t think he’d need to go that far. If he wanted to juice them he’d just have his own upvotes count 1000x or something like that.