"I'm closing in on a year myself. One thing that HN has clearly done for me is turn my interest in technology into an interest in businesses driven by technolog

"I'm closing in on a year myself. One thing that HN has clearly done for me is turn my interest in technology into an interest in businesses driven by technology -- it's moved me up a whole meta-level." Hah! It made me go in the opposite direction, but in a good way. I started drifting away from CS and SE, getting more and more bored by it. Slashdot was my only half-decent "tech" news site. Other things become more interesting to me. Then I discovered this site. Now I'm very happily being dragged back into developing my hacking skills. For a while I was letting my skills slip. But now, I'm getting good at it again. Thank you, HN.