Every ycombinator project involved with the creation, moderation, infrastructure, management, or sourcing of content for platforms makes use of hn as a source.

Every ycombinator project involved with the creation, moderation, infrastructure, management, or sourcing of content for platforms makes use of hn as a source. Everyone in those circles follow suit, HN is beautifully curated and wonderfully crafted to be open. HN content is "fresh," mirrored on dozens of sites within minutes of showing up on the front page. 4chan and reddit get the links within about 20 minutes of it showing up here. Slashdot, dailydot, and other aggregators lag about an hour. Within 3 hours, most links here have probably hit the eyeballs of at least a few hundred million people, and there's probably a good 50k legitimately insane people in that crowd. I found HN when I started looking for where the aggregators and forums were sourcing stuff I was interested in. I'd love to see Google's rankings and see what other sites are similar to HN in this regard.