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Apparently the account must be created before 2/13/2008: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#hacker-news-classic https://github.com/minimaxir

• dang 3y ago
  That was because HN got its public start in Feb 2007 and pg wanted to look at users who had joined in the first year. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38779197 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38779197