If there is a single person that at the same time: 1) Influenced positively my life a lot. 2) I don't know. This is Paul Graham. I have a lot of respect for him

If there is a single person that at the same time: 1) Influenced positively my life a lot. 2) I don't know. This is Paul Graham. I have a lot of respect for him, and he did something very important for our community, it was an inspiration for many. Now he is doing great things for the startups community. While I don't like that IMHO HN is polarized, I still think YCombinator is one of the most significant phenomena of the latest years in our field. But still I think it is legitimate to think that this kind of news sites are important enough that can't be polarized, that should be handled by many people (I want to create a consortium or alike otherwise lamernews would be like HN, with a single vision, but just worse since Paul Graham is smarter and with more resources than me). Another goal of LN, not the site but the code base, is to provide to people a good code base to create this kind of sites for other fields using little money. Once those kind of sites start becoming big scaling them is apparently non trivial, but with LN this should be pretty different, we'll be able to do some math later when the site gets busier or when the code base is used for other bigger sites, but I believe that LN code base can serve a lot of traffic with little hardware, and the BSD license allows to use the code base in more contexts. So I don't have nothing against PG, YCombinator, the community here, I just thing that at this point we understood that news sites for programmers are so important that there should be a "third party" involved in running them, without ADS, without job postings, without a big percentage of users being from a particular incubator, and so forth. p.s. also if you ask me, I don't think PG is biased and kills stories against its startups, the things I don't like about how the site is handled are: the unilaterality of decisions, not fixing the site performances, and that PG did not resisted to the temptation of using the site to post job postings (you should try to realize how a huge value this is for YC however, startups are made of hackers).