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The 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 ago
Hard to remember that YouTube was once not owned by Google.
jeffwass 5y ago
Whoa! So weird to see pg and sama usernames as green!
- 11thEarlOfMar 5y ago
  And Arrington voted down to 'dead'.
  - sillysaurusx 5y ago
    Fun 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 ago
    I'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
      I have no data or examples to back this up but very recently I have been noticing what seems to be a lot more comments with what seems to be intentionally divisive language and/or generic comments that do not seem to have much to do with the OP. Nothing this obvious but it was setting off some of the same flags in my head as some Reddit threads. Could just be that I am paranoid though :-D
guiambros 5y ago
Ha, almost no comments! I'm glad this has evolved over the years; the comments are the main reason I keep coming back.
hsn915 5y ago
Interesting. The first post was on that date (October 9) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1
tmvnty 5y ago
Yes it is. Also for reference, here's list of number 1 posts on HN since that day: https://hnhd.io/ https://hnhd.io/
divbzero 5y ago
HN didn’t exist yet before 2006-10-09: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-08 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-08 Here are all the days with posts from 2006-10-09 through 2007-02-19: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-09 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-09 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-10 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-10 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-11 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-11 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-12 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-12 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-13 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-13 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-14 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-14 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-15 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-15 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-17 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-17 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-22 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-22 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-12-14 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-12-14 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2007-02-19 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2007-02-19 What happened in between? Was HN tweaked and then relaunched?

avg_dev 5y ago

Hard to remember that YouTube was once not owned by Google.

jeffwass 5y ago

Whoa! So weird to see pg and sama usernames as green!

11thEarlOfMar 5y ago
And Arrington voted down to 'dead'.
- sillysaurusx 5y ago
  Fun 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 ago
  I'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
    I have no data or examples to back this up but very recently I have been noticing what seems to be a lot more comments with what seems to be intentionally divisive language and/or generic comments that do not seem to have much to do with the OP. Nothing this obvious but it was setting off some of the same flags in my head as some Reddit threads. Could just be that I am paranoid though :-D

guiambros 5y ago

Ha, almost no comments! I'm glad this has evolved over the years; the comments are the main reason I keep coming back.

hsn915 5y ago

Interesting. The first post was on that date (October 9) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1

tmvnty 5y ago

Yes it is. Also for reference, here's list of number 1 posts on HN since that day: https://hnhd.io/ https://hnhd.io/

divbzero 5y ago

HN didn’t exist yet before 2006-10-09: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-08 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-08 Here are all the days with posts from 2006-10-09 through 2007-02-19: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-09 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-09 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-10 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-10 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-11 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-11 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-12 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-12 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-13 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-13 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-14 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-14 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-15 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-15 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-17 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-17 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-22 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-22 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-12-14 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-12-14 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2007-02-19 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2007-02-19 What happened in between? Was HN tweaked and then relaunched?