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Meh… I don't know why I would care about this. Apologies for being dismissive, but if this wasn't HN, a subdomain of YC, I don't think this would be here. It's

Meh… I don't know why I would care about this. Apologies for being dismissive, but if this wasn't HN, a subdomain of YC, I don't think this would be here. It's not tech or science or any of the other pursuits of knowledge that drive this site. This is better suited to the Financial Times.

Phiwise_ 3y ago
HN has regularly featured startup news since the beginning, and Ycombinator is probably the most newsworthy player in the space on a significance-to-spammyness scale. I don't love this article but something about the news should be here.
hluska 3y ago
I’m sorry, but have you heard of Y Combinator?
- detourdog 3y ago
  This may seem funny but at least some of this sites demographic only know of ycombinator from HN. My attitude is that anything on HN that I'm not interested I don't bother thinking about.
  - macintux 3y ago
    I’m only aware of YC from here, and I couldn’t tell you more than 2 or 3 facts about it, and I suspect at least one of them is wrong.
    - rfrey 3y ago
      That's interesting. I wonder how the current population of HN splits between people who heard of HN because of YC (that describes me), and people who heard of YC because of HN.
      - simonbarker87 3y ago
        I’ve had my account here since 2012 and I only know about YC because of HN. That also seemed to be in YC’s golden years as well as far as I can tell. At this point YC is a bit of a nothing burger best I can tell so HN is, I would imagine, far and away the bigger brand.
        ahstilde 3y ago
        > YC is a bit of a nothing burger How do you figure that? Looking at their homepage, it says the companies they've invested in are worth a sum $600B.
        fakedang 3y ago
        Companies from the 2010s cohort though, he's got a point. Stripe is a $100B chunk, Airbnb is another $100B chunk, Doordash is a $50B chunk, Instacart is a $10B chunk...
      - bookofjoe 3y ago
        I'm the latter.
      - Retr0id 3y ago
        I'm in the latter camp. I'm largely uninterested in startup culture etc., but HN is one of the better sources of "interesting tech and associated discussion". Given that, I'm not sure why I clicked on this article...
      - Icathian 3y ago
        I'm definitely in the latter bucket, though I've been here a long time now. I found HN as technical subreddits started to no longer satisfy my curiosity about tech, and fell in love. I originally learned about the startup ecosystem from lurking around here.
      - chasd00 3y ago
        I only know of YC because of HN. I know nothing about YC except it seems to be one of the many incubators where you pay them handsomely one way or the other in the hopes they can get you off the ground. I guess like the self help section of an old bookstore.
kstrauser 3y ago
Even if this weren’t somehow tech news - which it is - I get a lot of value out of reading things posted here. If YC, the org paying the bills so I can read this for free, wanted to talk about themselves on occasion, I wouldn’t begrudge them. They definitely haven’t abused it.
tracerbulletx 3y ago
Business news especially start up news has always been here. I'd like to make a wider point that tech workers should embrace business and the understanding of how business works and make it a central part of their worldview, it is essentially the technology of civilization. Otherwise you abdicate leadership to the exact type of people that make a lot of other people rightly irritated or downright spiteful at the business side of tech in the first place. It doesn't actually have to be so bad.
- solardev 3y ago
  It's a fair point, but I actually wish we had a hacker community like this without the business/startup side at all. It's just not that interesting to me. As for abdicating leadership, I don't know that simply following in their footsteps is going to make better organizations either. That's just "if you can't beat em, join em" thinking... but that's a separate discussion, I suppose.
  - simonw 3y ago
    "I actually wish we had a hacker community like this without the business/startup side at all" Sounds like you want https://lobste.rs https://lobste.rs
    - solardev 3y ago
      What's that? Is it invite-only (and why)...?
      - lukan 3y ago
        Invite only, yes. Probably because so it stays the way it is and they do not want to discuss all their style again and again and again.
      - mcint 3y ago
        https://lobste.rs/about#invitations https://lobste.rs/about#invitations Invites push people to exercise discretion, and not pollute the commons. Send me an email, solardev, if you want an invite.
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joshxyz 3y ago
idk about chu but as a yc fanatic this is a breathe of fresh air from most of the news out there. these yc partners really put a lot of effort in their work.

Phiwise_ 3y ago

HN has regularly featured startup news since the beginning, and Ycombinator is probably the most newsworthy player in the space on a significance-to-spammyness scale. I don't love this article but something about the news should be here.

hluska 3y ago

I’m sorry, but have you heard of Y Combinator?

detourdog 3y ago
This may seem funny but at least some of this sites demographic only know of ycombinator from HN. My attitude is that anything on HN that I'm not interested I don't bother thinking about.
- macintux 3y ago
  I’m only aware of YC from here, and I couldn’t tell you more than 2 or 3 facts about it, and I suspect at least one of them is wrong.
  - rfrey 3y ago
    That's interesting. I wonder how the current population of HN splits between people who heard of HN because of YC (that describes me), and people who heard of YC because of HN.
    - simonbarker87 3y ago
      I’ve had my account here since 2012 and I only know about YC because of HN. That also seemed to be in YC’s golden years as well as far as I can tell. At this point YC is a bit of a nothing burger best I can tell so HN is, I would imagine, far and away the bigger brand.
      - ahstilde 3y ago
        > YC is a bit of a nothing burger How do you figure that? Looking at their homepage, it says the companies they've invested in are worth a sum $600B.
        fakedang 3y ago
        Companies from the 2010s cohort though, he's got a point. Stripe is a $100B chunk, Airbnb is another $100B chunk, Doordash is a $50B chunk, Instacart is a $10B chunk...
    - bookofjoe 3y ago
      I'm the latter.
    - Retr0id 3y ago
      I'm in the latter camp. I'm largely uninterested in startup culture etc., but HN is one of the better sources of "interesting tech and associated discussion". Given that, I'm not sure why I clicked on this article...
    - Icathian 3y ago
      I'm definitely in the latter bucket, though I've been here a long time now. I found HN as technical subreddits started to no longer satisfy my curiosity about tech, and fell in love. I originally learned about the startup ecosystem from lurking around here.
    - chasd00 3y ago
      I only know of YC because of HN. I know nothing about YC except it seems to be one of the many incubators where you pay them handsomely one way or the other in the hopes they can get you off the ground. I guess like the self help section of an old bookstore.

kstrauser 3y ago

Even if this weren’t somehow tech news - which it is - I get a lot of value out of reading things posted here. If YC, the org paying the bills so I can read this for free, wanted to talk about themselves on occasion, I wouldn’t begrudge them. They definitely haven’t abused it.

tracerbulletx 3y ago

Business news especially start up news has always been here. I'd like to make a wider point that tech workers should embrace business and the understanding of how business works and make it a central part of their worldview, it is essentially the technology of civilization. Otherwise you abdicate leadership to the exact type of people that make a lot of other people rightly irritated or downright spiteful at the business side of tech in the first place. It doesn't actually have to be so bad.

solardev 3y ago
It's a fair point, but I actually wish we had a hacker community like this without the business/startup side at all. It's just not that interesting to me. As for abdicating leadership, I don't know that simply following in their footsteps is going to make better organizations either. That's just "if you can't beat em, join em" thinking... but that's a separate discussion, I suppose.
- simonw 3y ago
  "I actually wish we had a hacker community like this without the business/startup side at all" Sounds like you want https://lobste.rs https://lobste.rs
  - solardev 3y ago
    What's that? Is it invite-only (and why)...?
    - lukan 3y ago
      Invite only, yes. Probably because so it stays the way it is and they do not want to discuss all their style again and again and again.
    - mcint 3y ago
      https://lobste.rs/about#invitations https://lobste.rs/about#invitations Invites push people to exercise discretion, and not pollute the commons. Send me an email, solardev, if you want an invite.

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joshxyz 3y ago

idk about chu but as a yc fanatic this is a breathe of fresh air from most of the news out there. these yc partners really put a lot of effort in their work.