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Y Combinator's First Web Site
- andygcook 15y agoLooks almost identical to the website they have today.
- adulau 15y agoA good news. This showed their consistency over time.
- zbruhnke 15y ago"The Fourth Man wants to remain anonymous for now" lol makes you wonder how long that lasted :P
- pg 15y agoThere was some speculation at the time about who it might be, but the explanation was simply that Jessica hadn't quit her job yet. Incidentally, "The Fourth Man" was not an attempt to conceal her gender; it was a reference to the Guy Burgess spy ring.
- benatkin 15y agoHere's the HTML without the Wayback Machine addition in case anyone's interested: https://gist.github.com/2053395 https://gist.github.com/2053395
- forwardslash 15y agoThanks! I would've missed the little easter egg in there if not for you: <!-- We're plugging the startup molecule into the summer-job receptor to see if the resulting organism is viable.-->
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- tbsdy 15y agoNot much different to today. I guess you can't improve on perfect!
- laconian 15y agoYes, perfection is a 50% chance of "unknown or expired link."
- nitrogen 15y agoThat just means you're browsing too slowly ;) AIUI and as you've probably figured out when you Googled for the error message, Hacker News stores state in closures, and there's a finite amount of space for closures. So if you wait for a long time, then click e.g. "Next Page", the HN software has already garbage collected the closure storing the information necessary to generate your specific next page.
- gghh 15y agoSo have you read HN's website code? Do you know where to find it? It must be somewhere, since I remember seeing a sort of "Quant Finance News" website whose appearance was identical to HN. They must have used the same codebase -- where to look? EDIT: that's the site using HN code: http://quant.ly/ http://quant.ly/
- rms 15y agohttp://arclanguage.org/ http://arclanguage.org/
- majani 15y agoYes, that's one of HN's biggest annoyances. When you consider HN's user experience (open article in new tab, read for five minutes, then return to HN tab) it's a misplaced 'feature'
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- gghh 15y agoEhy, "Hacker News" was "Startup News" at the time http://web.archive.org/web/20070221033032/http://news.ycombinator.com/ http://web.archive.org/web/20070221033032/http://news.ycombi... . I didn't know, and thought that Russ Cox was joking here https://plus.google.com/116810148281701144465/posts/h95SSbSJWQH https://plus.google.com/116810148281701144465/posts/h95SSbSJ...
- rokhayakebe 15y agoI remember there was a debate when the name changed.
- homosaur 15y agoThat text is not small enough for my taste.
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- thekevan 15y agoI barely see the difference. (And I like it.)