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This site used to be known as Startup News, a long time ago. It's also hosted on a sub-domain of a company that funds startups.

• bonch 15y ago
  Paul Graham 14 August 2007 As of today we've expanded the focus of news.ycombinator.com from news about startups to news interesting to hackers generally. To reflect that we've changed the name to Hacker News.
  • Pheter 15y ago
    Expanded, not redefined.
    • bonch 15y ago
      And my criticism was about the recent imbalance of such topics.