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Happy 15th birthday Hacker News
- rbolla 5y agoHBD HN!
- seumars 5y agoHa! lots of interesting headlines: >YouTube: "identifying copyrighted material can't be an automated process." Startup disagrees.
- adpcm 5y agoWish they would have said that DMCA claims can’t be an automated process. Not that that is really on YouTube alone though.
- nhoughto 5y agoWasn’t there a thread recently (can’t find it) about the limit of paging back to the earliest posts and that it actually started in October or similar? And feb is just the earliest the UI will let you click to, so anniversary is actually past already? Not to be a party pooper =|
- Sebb767 5y agoI guess it's like Christmas; it's the tradition that matters, not the exact date.
- headalgorithm 5y agoThe first day of HN frontpage: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30200626 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30200626
- jointpdf 5y agoTop comment from the post announcing HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=124 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=124): > Well its not a totally useless link submission... Even our earliest comment ancestors had the signature HN venom.
- tomrod 5y agoVenom? Characteristic wit of people who have no time for silliness :)
- pfarrell 5y ago2006-10-09. Using the “past” link doesn’t include dates around this time. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28816110 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28816110 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-09 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-09
- tkanarsky 5y agoIt's remarkable how unchanged the community feel has been on HN -- those headlines would not be out of place on today's front page if you change the company names and tech stacks a bit :) Doesn't seem like there's been an eternal September moment in the past decade and a half (like Reddit's push for mobile adoption, for example). Really a testament to the mods' consistency, thanks @dang!
- sharken 5y agoDang is a key factor in the success of HN, no doubt about it. Another part is the consistent website design, it helps in focusing on the essentials, i.e. the articles and the discussions. And last but not least i try to be the best I can when posting here.
- dncornholio 5y agoThe consistent design is what's holding HN back. The worst is when the top comment has so many replies, the first page is only reactions on that comment. Someone actually needs to sticky a comment saying there's a next page button with links to it. Oh and the links are unclickable on mobile.
- robryan 5y agoSure there are some tweeks that could be made. I'll take what we have currently though over having a designer decide what we really need is something like new Reddit.
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- onion2k 5y agoHappy birthday!
- dgellow 5y agoHappy birthday orange website. Lot of love to all and big thanks to dang for maintaining the community the way you’ve done all these years.
- Zealotux 5y agoSharing a small snippet I made to convert all links to web archives from 2007: document.querySelectorAll('.titlelink').forEach((link) => link.href = "https://web.archive.org/web/20070601000000*/ https://web.archive.org/web/20070601000000*/" + link.href);
- ficklepickle 5y agoIf you are entering this into the browser console, you can use $$() as shorthand for document.querySelectorAll(), with chromium-based browsers at least. As a bonus, it returns an array so you can map/filter.
- chrismorgan 5y agoFirefox dev tools also have $$ be document.querySelectorAll as Array.
- sharmin123 5y ago[dead]
- jgrahamc 5y agoWow. I've been hanging out here for 15 years.
- rglullis 5y agoToday I learned that I joined HN before jgrahamc. I think I will substitute my Slashdot 5-digit UID for my HN join date as my favorite nerd-humblebrag.
- jgrahamc 5y agoMe and my 6-digit /. UID bow down before you. Now, how many digits in your CompuServe ID?
- mindcrime 5y agoHah... I remember feeling shameful about my 5 digit /. UID because everybody knew the real OG's had 4 digit ones! God that brings back memories. I checked my /. profile just now and see that I still have an AIM id and an ICQ id listed there. Yikes. And the email address points to a domain I haven't owned in like 15 years. At least the jabber address I had listed is actually still active.
- raphlinus 5y agoYou rang? [3148]: https://slashdot.org/~raph https://slashdot.org/~raph
- ColinWright 5y agoThe actual start was some time before that: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-09 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-09
- avg_dev 5y agoHard to remember that YouTube was once not owned by Google.
- jeffwass 5y agoWhoa! So weird to see pg and sama usernames as green!
- 11thEarlOfMar 5y agoAnd Arrington voted down to 'dead'.
- sillysaurusx 5y agoFun fact, I'm pretty sure that was the first troll account. I.e. the first account made explicitly to troll. Arrington was something of a meme back in those days.
- dang 5y agoI've been meaning to do something about those troll comments because they were posted several years after the original threads and people are still getting confused by them. (Needless to say, Arrington wasn't Arrington.) There were 500+ comments all posted within an hour, obviously by script. They were dead not because they were voted down, but because we killed them years later. I thought that would be sufficient but it wasn't. I have a hunch that was what prompted pg ("I never write a line of code unless I have to") to close old threads to new comments. Edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30387562 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30387562
- Melatonic 5y ago
- eezurr 5y agoThank you to the moderation team for keeping HN a pleasant, educational corner of the internet.
- cyanne 5y agoHappy 15th birthday then!
- jll29 5y agoThanks, HN, for continuing being one of the few islands of ideas and expertise in an over-commercialized WWW.
- sebow 5y agoBarely even 5 here but here's to 15 more good years.Happy anniversary
- lgvld 5y agoHappy B-day! Thank you to everyone involved in HN (including people submitting and commenting). One of my favorite place of the Internet! ;-)
- ahelwer 5y agoPeople (and myself) can rag on this website a lot but it really has changed the trajectory of my professional life. It’s where I: * first learned about CRDTs, kickstarting an interest in distributed systems * first learned about TLA+, kickstarting an interest in formal specification * first saw the book Quantum Computing Since Democritus recommended (in a post about Professor Sussman’s reading list), kickstarting an interest in quantum computing * first learned about the LEAN theorem prover, kickstarting an interest in machine-checked proofs of correctness for mathematical theorems * first learned about tree-sitter, leading me to write a tree-sitter grammar for TLA+ All of these (well, except quantum computing really - that remains a pleasant side-hobby although I did work in Microsoft’s quantum program for a bit) are now things I use in the contracts I work on as an independent software engineering consultant, and the open source work I do in between. TLA+ especially has had an enormous impact. Five good posts over the course of ten years is still a pretty good signal/noise ratio!
- iib 5y agoIs your tree-sitter grammar for TLA+ public somewhere?
- ahelwer 5y agohttps://github.com/tlaplus-community/tree-sitter-tlaplus https://github.com/tlaplus-community/tree-sitter-tlaplus
- wofo 5y agoHey thanks for this comment! It reminded me that I wanted to play with TLA+ some years ago. Now, for the first time, I got a couple of models checked :)
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- d4rkp4ttern 5y agoEven for topics that have subreddits, I feel HN discussions are often better — r/MachineLearning for example.
- zapjpn 5y agoHappy Birthday!誕生日おめでとう
- tannhaeuser 5y agoTook me a while to find out where the cool kids had gone from Slashdot back then ;) Speaking of which, let's keep HN a liberal and welcoming place also for corps/startups (but not astroturfers) where key developers, experts from non-IT, CEOs/CTOs can have a voice as that's what makes HN unique IMO.
- jacquesm 5y agoWe even got the root node ;) https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cmdrtaco https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cmdrtaco
- CSMastermind 5y agoWow that's a name I haven't thought about in a long time. I was in high school in the early 2000s and Slashdot was like a haven for me. I grew up in a town where I didn't know anyone in technology, let alone professional programmers. But thanks to the internet I could get onto Slashdot and talk to other nerds and interact with real live professional programmers. I haven't logged into my account in years but in hindsight that site meant a huge amount to me.
- jillesvangurp 5y agoAh, I miss the old Slashdot. It took me a while to become a regular here as well. Slashdot got a bit too serious/corporate at some point and the founders eventually got out and at some point I just moved on as well. The last time I left a comment there was twelve years ago or so. I actually just logged in just to see if my account is still there. Karma still excellent :-). I like HN, but it could do with people being maybe a bit less uptight and a bit lighter sometimes. The comment section seems to have quite a few pedantic know it-alls taking themselves way to seriously; just like slashdot used to. Welcoming is maybe not a term I'd necessarily use for this. Anyway, happy birthday HN!
- allochthon 5y agoThere's definitely a contingent in the HN comments with a bit of an antisocial streak. I wish people approached comments they take issue with with more of a pedagogical approach, starting with interpretive charity and trying to help the commenter see things in another way. I'd actually use the term "welcoming" in this context.
- hailpixel 5y agoOh wow, I've been on here a long time.
- epa 5y agoWe have had our ups and downs over the years but this is still is my favorite website.
- zriha 5y agoAs a newcomer here, well I am wishing everybody a happy birthday! :)
- aiisjustanif 5y agoGod I feel old. Started reading HN in 2012.
- sgt 5y ago15 years - and most of the links are dead.
- lucb1e 5y agoSometimes I wonder how many years I'm going to keep maintaining ancient pages on my server with PHP upgrades and stuff. I feel bad for letting them go dead. And then I turn around and click another link from three months ago and wonder why I even bother... And that's when I make another donation to the vital Internet Archive
- lvl100 5y agoI’ve been coming here from the beginning. Off and on. Different handles because I rarely saved my passwords. I absolutely appreciate all the gem comments especially from insiders. This is the only place that reminds me of 90s newsgroups. I want to especially thank Dang for keeping this place consistent.
- globile 5y agoWas also here on the 1st day, the same day I decided to start-up 15 years ago! Took me 7 years to create an account though. Wish I had done it sooner! Especially ALWAYS reading the comments BEFORE the actual articles! Thanks!
- misiti3780 5y agohow did people hear about it back then?
- jedberg 5y agoFrom reddit and/or PGs blog.
- karlzt 5y agoFrom PGs blog, O'Reilly's feed and/or Slashdot. /.
- capableweb 5y agoI've only been on HN since around ~2009 or something like that (11 years), but most people I've met in real-life who are also on HN have been recommended to visit the site first time from fellow hackers, rather than via other websites.
- benhoyt 5y agoI was a reader of Paul Graham's essays and website, which I believe is where I heard about it. Or it might have been reddit (which I'm sure I heard about via PG). I joined Reddit on January 25, 2006 and HN on February 21, 2007.
- melenaboija 5y agoI have no doubt that the first page of HN made me the professional I am now and the comments helped me to forge strong opinions. It has been a while since I started using the HN search engine to know better about technical topics. Not sure who to but thank you.
- tomrod 5y agopg, dang, and all others who work behind the scenes, as well as the scores of commenters and submitters who challenge by seeking to understand. I too am a beneficiary of this neo-polis of tech and philosophy.
- melenaboija 5y agoYup, that could be interpreted wrong. Sure I am grateful to dang and all the members. of the community. I guess I have a bit of conflict on the origin of the community, not saying there is anything wrong in what it is but maybe no connections with a private initiative would make me feel more comfortable, but I guess that it is what it is and I should say thank you to Y Combinator too.
- tomrod 5y agoIn this context, "behind the scenes" == keep the place running, like moderators I did not name, IT support, etc.
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- sidcool 5y agoWith all its quirks, HN has had a big impact on my life for more than a decade.
- raverbashing 5y agoIf you go one day forward, there's this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=189 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=189 But the actual YC link is 404
- Jaruzel 5y agoArchived copy of the 404: https://web.archive.org/web/20140625052305/http://ycombinator.com:80/announcingnews.html https://web.archive.org/web/20140625052305/http://ycombinato...
- mikezhdev 5y agoHappy birthday, HN!!
- chris123 5y agoThe good old days, most fantastic. Now it's to degenerated into some combination of echo chamber and safe place, with no lively debate, certainly not about anything controversial. Very sad.
- Kye 5y agoYou're baiting flags and downvotes here, intentional or not. It will seem to confirm your faulty view of HN. Isn't that handy?
- hunterb123 5y agoI agree with him partly, and at least two other users voiced the same concern, one albeit in an abrasive manner. It's still the best place to have a debate though. There are some topics that are very predictable, some of them are noticeably left issues, some things more loosely connected. Crypto, Tesla, Brave, Facebook, Israel, etc. are all subjects you'll most likely get heavily downvoted and probably flagged if you don't view the common (to here) opinion. HN is not immune to group think and talking points get parroted here often, dissenting views flagged and downvoted. But not always, it's definitely nowhere near Reddit bad. Like I said at the top, it's the best place on the internet to have a discussion, but not perfect, and seemingly getting a worse slowly, the way it always seems to go.
- Kye 5y agoI've been around since near the start in one way or another. The only big change I've seen is the near complete disappearance of casual bigotry. People still voice a wide range of views, but now it helps to not be an ass about it. It used to be someone could just go on a screed about the right topics and get lots of upvotes. Now they have to launder it a bit. The flipside is I can actually share my somewhat left of center views without being flagged and downvoted into oblivion as long as I practice a little decorum. If anything, the quality is up because people have to put a little effort in now.
- hunterb123 5y ago
- kaeruct 5y agoA lot of people hate on Hacker News but personally it's been very helpful for my life. Thanks for everything <3
- streamofdigits 5y agoIt feels like HN still upholds the early promise of the internet (along with Wikipedia and very small number of other websites). But what will the next 15 year bring about?
- Cthulhu_ 5y agoPossibly people wishing the internet was back like it was in 2022, :D
- ignoramous 5y agoSee also, 1. Eternal September: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September 2. (and what I like to call) Eternal October: https://googlepress.blogspot.com/2000/10/google-launches-self-service.html https://googlepress.blogspot.com/2000/10/google-launches-sel...
- dmonitor 5y ago2016 was the third impact
- ignoramous 5y agoTikTok? Ether?
- sharkweek 5y agoDon’t forget Zombo.com, a bastion. In a billion years, when an alien species reaches earth and sees the ruins of human civilization, somehow one of the last remaining transmissions is that voice, calmly reminding everyone that anything is possible… at Zombocom
- UweSchmidt 5y agoWhat's the "early promise of the internet" to you? The Venture Capitalists and startuppers that made HN like the internet to be Free enough that new businesses and services can thrive, and Open Source for the accessible and reusable building blocks for their projects, but clearly like commercialization and being the middleman, like in the good old offline days. The headache of moderating their platforms feels more urgent than thinking about Freedom of Speech. The early internet, to me, was the promise to remove those middlemen and have us directly connect, and, while using mostly free and low-overhead websites or services, contribute back. I expected real estate classifieds posted in an open format to open databases by now, and the job description of "real estate agent" retired. When I think if "upholding" anything I might think of Slashdot clearly preaching Open Source and the Evils of Microsoft. Naive by today's standards but hey, it kept the old ethos alive for a little longer. Edit: No doubt many other excellent values were upheld by HN and the moderators, so thanks for that!
- rishabhd 5y agoThe site which changed my life. Happy Birthday HN.
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- ziml77 5y agodang, that's an impressive amount of time to maintain quality content and discussions on the internet.
- BaldricksGhost 5y agoHN is one of my favorite daily reads! Here's to the next 15 years and many more.
- HHalvi 5y agoI discovered HN around 2012, been visiting this site the first thing every morning for a decade now. Happy birthday HN :)
- d3nit 5y agoHappy Bday HN! Since I come here I think I spend too much time of my workdays with reading :D
- billylo 5y agoI really enjoy HN and slashdot.org type of community. Makers talking about making things. The longevity and quality of HN discussion is much appreciated.
- bartwe 5y agoWas glad hn got started right around the time r/programming collapsed
- raxxorrax 5y agoWhy did it collapse? I use reddit from time to time, but never for programming related stuff. Did read HN for quite a while, not 15 years though and started spamming it just a few years ago.
- bkfh 5y ago2007 is... 15 years ago OMG
- stillblue 5y agoChecking HN is the very first thing I do after waking up. It has been that way for years now. Amazing community!!!!
- lngnmn2 5y agoWe must acknowledge that it went from the free speech place for nerds and autists with zero censure to a safe space for mediocre imposters where everything slightly unconventional is being flagged. Congratulations.
- smugkot 5y agoWhat website would you say is better?
- jacquesm 5y agoYes, even in a thread like this there are people that don't know how to behave. FWIW I did not expect to flag a comment in this thread, but you managed to cross my threshold. And if it is so aggravating to you, why do you keep coming back?
- hahamrfunnyguy 5y agoWow, it's been that long? When I created my account about 8 years ago, it seemed like HN had been around for ages already! Thank you to Dang and the HN team for keeping this site quality.
- TacticalCoder 5y agoBig thanks to pg, dang, all the others involved and all the HN community. Happy birthday! P.S: I think it's one of those threads that can have the old /. or reddit feeling, posting messages without much substance but that do still feel good and even with an oldschool smiley ; )
- deadbyte 5y agoLongtime lurker, but thanks to everyone. I get so much value and enjoyment from this community.
- atum47 5y agoI've been coming here daily since 2018, before that I use to go to /g/. Difference is that over here I can get insights from highly intelligent people without being called a ret*d. Thanks Dang
- thatguyagain 5y agoLove this site
- mfrw 5y agoI think what I owe to this place is me transforming from a dumb fellow who would say "This ${shiny_thing} solves world hunger & ${everything_else} is wrong!" to "Yeah, naah ... everyone has a point of view and is right from their vantage point" tl;dr I think this platform made me more humble! A big "thank you" to the community :)
- erwincoumans 5y agoCongrats, a great place to discuss interesting topics. Wonder how HN moderators deal with spam? I have a phpBB3 (was phpBB2) forum for 17 years, still running, and had to be inventive with spam: for the last 5 years you have to solve a dot product and answer a logic question during registration. It may exclude some genuine visitors unfortunately. Also migrated the server to different VPS companies, it takes energy to keep a forum running, a popular site such as HN in particular. So thank you HN admins!
- smrtinsert 5y agoOne of the first to use bayesian spam filtering techniques if I remember correctly. Probably only gotten better since then. Still using spacer gifs though hah.
- Brajeshwar 5y agoNice. Got in about 14 years go but not active for a long time in the beginning. Hackernews is a really nice place.
- wildlogic 5y agoWow, been lurking for 12! Feels like a few lifetimes... Getting old... Thanks for everything.
- minusSeven 5y agoMaybe an unpopular opinion here but I am finding HN to be more and more like Reddit everyday. I normally only read HN articles that have atleast 500 points or more and have notifications setup for it. In the past I used to get only 1 or 2 notifications a week. Now I get atleast 4 a day. I find it hard nowadays to keep up.
- sbayeta 5y agoMaybe there are more users now?
- nicky0 5y agoPerhaps you could increase the notification threshold.
- inglor_cz 5y agoI only visit HN sine September 2020 and yet the growth of the user base in just 17 months seems obvious to me. Covid and WFH probably contributed to that growth as well.
- Minor49er 5y agoThe New section also has plenty of interesting submissions that don't make it to the front page, though it would be easy to lose hours reading them
- RubberMullet 5y agoSlashdot -> F'd Company forum -> MetaFilter -> HN Big thanks to dang and everyone involved.
- mathgenius 5y agoSlashdot -> Technocrat [1] -> HN. I think Bruce Perens shutdown technocrat.net because it's just a p.i.t.a. running a forum like this [2]. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20080110105629/http://technocrat.net/ https://web.archive.org/web/20080110105629/http://technocrat... [2] https://web.archive.org/web/20090104214806/http://technocrat.net/ https://web.archive.org/web/20090104214806/http://technocrat...
- drumhead 5y agoHN is what reddit used to be like when it first started. Links to interesting Tech, programming and science stories and high quality discussion compared to something like Digg. Thankfully HN hasnt dropped in quality on that front unlike reddit. Its still so good I dont even click on the link I click on comments to get a HN summary which gives me a pretty good idea if its worth reading or not. Most of the time the comments are even better and more informative.
- sbayeta 5y agoI suspect this is what most of us do
- slap_shot 5y ago> Thankfully HN hasnt dropped in quality on that front unlike reddit. I've heard these sorts of shots taken at Reddit since I started using it in 2011 (I was late to the game) and I'm fascinated by it. I use Reddit every day and am in constant awe of how it is populated with such a wide breadth of people with such a strong passion and expertise about virtually any subject I enjoy. Many times a week i type "reddit <some topic I'm curious about>" and the top threads/comments are almost always someone with better knowledge on that subject than anything else I can find on the internet. It's just funny how everyone's perception is different, but I think Reddit is a modern marvel.
- aaronsimpson 5y agoThis may just be my confirmation bias, but I started using Reddit in 2012 and that felt like the big heyday and the peak of the site. It had reached critical mass to be interesting, but the new UI design hadn't come yet and it still felt niche enough to have the weird, interesting corners.
- forbiddenvoid 5y agoI think the sad reality may be that the majority of folks out there don't want niche, weird and interesting.
- edmcnulty101 5y agoI just have to say,if you ever start to get down on hacker news just go to Twitter and try to start a reasonable discussion. It will inspire great gratitude for HN.
- seandoe 5y agoI know people are always talking about the downfall of the web, but doesn't hackernews show that the spirit is alive and well? And further, great sites don't have to devolve into shit. I don't use social media, so to me the web _is_ places like hackernews and the great resources it typically references. Cheers and thank you all.
- mmaunder 5y agoHappy birthday HN and shout out to all the OGs still here. Thanks to the founders and the mods for creating a more cerebral space on the web.
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- woldenron 5y agoSo how many more until we get dark theme?
- InCityDreams 5y ago'Materialistic', on android/ playstore. Love hn, and am greatly appreciative I can't (or can't find how to....not that I want to) vote down! Asking for my apple friends...is there a similar app in the walled garden?
- kevwals 5y agoStarted from the bottom now we're here.
- samgranieri 5y agoHappy Birthday HN! This is one of my favorite online communities. I enjoy popping in here a few times a day
- rdl 5y agoThis remains my favorite forum on the Internet without customizing things. Curated set of twitter or fb or other friends are pretty good too, but the new user experience without customization here is amazing.
- yakochakri 5y agoActually, I came here to submit my link but after seeing the interaction rate I found that I am wrong. Happy Birthday, HN.
- anonu 5y ago> On Having Balls, Part II: Staying Hungry (hotornot.com) > 67 points by matt on Feb 19, 2007 | hide | 3 comments Was curious about this post. Found it here [1]. Reading this was interesting and felt a bit like going back in a time-machine. Hot or Not was a fantastic site -because it inspired a lot of my friends and myself in the early 2000s to build similar things. One thing I didn't realise is how much money the site was making then. Wikipedia claims it was doing $7m in revs in 2008 [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20070419061100/http://james.hotornot.com/2007/02/on-having-balls-part-ii-staying-hungry.html https://web.archive.org/web/20070419061100/http://james.hoto...
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- a4isms 5y agoDug into the "archives..." My first post on HN was 15 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1901 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1901 Happy birthday, HN! And thank-you dang, for all you do.
- wilmoore 5y agoHappy birthday HN. I absolutely love this community. Once I started reading HN somewhat frequently, there is no question that I became a better developer, thinker, researcher, and writer. The topics shared here seem to have no rival anywhere else on the internet ... at least, not as far as I am aware of. I think this is a good time to admit that when I first came here, I was a bit shy to post anything about tech or programming, but by hanging out here and practicing what I learned here, I eventually felt worthy of contributing. Thank You.
- upopoli 5y ago
- unixhero 5y agoThe most important website om the Internet.
- ellis0n 5y agoHappy birthday HN! 10 years ago, I accidentally found HN and left the local pirate community, which translated many posts (for Non-English speakers) from HN and never gave links to original content.
- zwieback 5y agoHappy Birthday, I love HN but I still miss Usenet...
- Red_Tarsius 5y agoFifteen years gone by watching tech fads come and go. Was that time well spent? This website had a huge influence over my worldview and I often find myself searching through the archived comments for all sorts of topics. Here's to 15 more years!
- 12ian34 5y agoThree things I enjoy the most about Hacker News: - Simplicity - Open-minded, ego-less debate - A great community, moderated just right
- soheil 5y agoIf instead of coming here for 15years and leaving a comment every other day you invested the dollar amount equivalent to the time you took to write that comment instead you would have $100k. 10 mins(time to read/write comment) x $120/hr = $20 x 30 days/mo x 0.5 (every other day) = $300/mo x 15 years x 8% (compounded annually) = $100k
- lucb1e 5y agoAmount of time spent on the site is too low I'd estimate, but then the income too high. The real problem is probably that, if you'd actually do this and try to value all your time like this... you'd burn out by the time you got to $1800 or something!
- mccada 5y agoHappy birthday Hacker News! It's usually the first site I pull up everyday, and even though I mostly just lurk I've learnt a lot of interesting info from the site. I appreciate the linked articles and insightful discussions on here.
- phrozbug 5y agoHappy birthday!
- zoover2020 5y agoHBD HN! Thanks for the amazing 15 years so far, sounds corny but I'm not sure if I'd be in the same place today without you. Love this place, thanks to all for making it possible. Let's keep it great for at least another 15 years.
- launchiterate 5y agoDang 15 years! Happy birthday and congratulations PG!
- ChrisArchitect 5y agoHappy Birthday HN. Obligatory and much warranted shouts of thanks to Dang. Trying to find my 'green' posts now for memory lane
- ayi 5y agoBear in mind that English not my main language so I can't possibly transfer what I think clearly. This is also the reason of why I don't comment regularly (like never). HN is still my go to source of news about almost anything. Ukraine crisis, health tech, startups, computer history, new technologies... anything. Right now, I literally have hundreds (yes) tabs open to just read the comments. But HN also made me learn something. It was first 3-4 years ago and I still see the same signals every month or at least at 2-3 months. It is: "even if you have %98 correlation between things you and other people like there can be some fundamental differences between you and them and if you dig these things you will just drift apart" We have a lot in common. A lot of us believes on tried and tested technologies instead of latest SmthJS. We still advocate Firefox instead of Chrome to serve libre software. We think that the power and money is highly concentrated on a handful of people and the distribution is not fair (but not the "5 families are managing the world" shit). We want free flowing data. We want the soul of web 1.0 back. Etc.. But what's detail and what's fundamental is different per person and I think the things we agree on is the details. We are different in fundamentals. We have very different world views and we fundamentally want different things from life. Ok, 2 paragraphs ago I said that I noticed these things 3-4 years ago and here is the samples I remember: * It was first started with GDPR. I possibly can't find the comment but I literally read a comment saying: "These are the reasons why Europe can't have successful startups. For a 3-4 people startup there is no way to delete PII from db. There is too much foreign keys in db to do that. Also we have sharding, replication etc. This increases the costs for smaller startups". MVP and "over engineering" are not binary terms. There must be a middle ground. But we can't agree on that because the middle ground changes based on our opinions. And in my opinion Privacy is not something you can gloss over for mvp or because you are a startup. For example can you save clear-text passwords just because you are startup? What about SSL? Even letsencrypt requires some work. Do you thing this is a "burden on startups"? What about people in Germany who wants their home to be blurred on maps software? If you can't satisfy their demands then maybe you are not in their market to sell your software. Just please stop pretending you are immune to the problems because you are not "big enough". What's the difference between the news from 2010s that Facebook employee reading old girlfriends private messages and your developer can do a select * from users where gender="female"? * Contemning people who prefer a more work-life balanced work and a hand of government on "free market" is another thing bothers me. By the way I'm from Turkey and I don't have a horse in EU-US game but "oh, you make 60k in 1 year? what a loser", "EU don't have startups because they go home at 5pm", "They don't have startups because they don't do hackathons" or "They don't have startups because they have unions" is a just a very myopic way of looking at life. The United States is the only country among the 38 member OECD nations that has not passed laws requiring businesses and corporations to offer paid maternity leave to their employees. Netherlands will send a nurse for 1 whole week to the home of the mother and they will even do the groceries so the mother can get at least a little sleep. I will just rest my case here. Oh sorry, I also think that no one in Germany gets bankrupt just because they call an ambulance. * Why can't we have businesses? Just normal businesses without obsession over growth, being a unicorn, getting bought by FAANG or IPO? Why don't we have more pinboard, screenjar, nomadlist, simpleanalytics or lunchmoney? I learned all of this sites from HN and I'm pretty sure they are operating like normal businesses. I can understand that after you become successful, someone or some company can approach you to buy you. But starting with that idea from day 1? I can't understand that. Linode got acquired, redis also, lastpass too. Why do I have to constantly follow the blog/news pages of the companies I work with so that my information does not fall into the hands of companies I do not want? Why can't you silicon valley guys can't just have an idea, execute that idea with a couple of developers, employ some accountant, hr manager etc and call it a day? Raise the prices yearly a little bir more than inflation and live a life? Maybe answer some customer mails yourself so thay can also feel a connection. Maybe just meet some of your customers? I can't understand the obsession with growth. That's the reason why our planet is in this situation. You can double your growth infinitely and keep a healthy relationship with anything. But, I love you guys. I can say that in the last 10 years possibly %40 of the things I learned was from HN. I wish you a happy weekend.
- gstipi 5y agoHN is the only place where I feel truly comfortable and at home. Through divorce, addiction, and desperation of all kinds. Thank you and to another 15 years.
- benhoyt 5y agoI very much appreciate this site, the stuff I've learned and been able to share, and the excellent just-the-right-amount moderation. I just checked, and it looks like I joined on 2007-02-21, cool!
- npunt 5y agoHN has been an amazing resource for my own personal development, and remains a reliable source for high quality content and discussion in certain topics. I think that has a lot to do with its smart design decisions and approach to moderation, and for that I'm very thankful. One curiosity for a social site is that despite being pretty active here, and having some good exchanges, I've never actually connected with someone here. It's a forum rooted in ideas, not people, and that's reinforced by its product restraints: no avatars, no following, no DMs, no blackbox algorithms. I really appreciate that, vis-a-vis other parts of the internet, though I do occasionally wish I could connect with the people behind the ideas. One funny quirk of being such an eng-oriented forum is a long time ago they let you sign up without an email, which meant when I lost my password I had to start a new account. I'd love to restore my original username.
- Pr0ject217 5y agoFavourite site. Thank you HN.
- mzmzmzm 5y agoHN is worth celebrating, but it's crazy how taking the link back to early days turns up so many dead links... some but not all in wayback. The sense then was things go up on the internet to stay forever, and in not a lot of time that's proven wrong.