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PG probably did the same things with HN. :-)
by harrisreynolds 14y ago
PG probably did the same things with HN. :-)
- minimax 14y agoNo but there was a user called nickb that was responsible for a disproportionate amount of content (excellent content) back in the day. There was a lot of speculation that nickb and pg were one in the same. Here are some posts for context: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=99923 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=99923 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=292858 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=292858
- lupatus 14y agoThanks! I had completely forgotten about nickb!
- qohen 14y agonickb...as in Nicholas Bourbaki, perhaps? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourbaki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourbaki Edit: someone else who thought about this (much) earlier: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=152428 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=152428
- qohen 14y agoAnd this would seem to prove it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=151109 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=151109 A guy named Roth wrote a post, that got posted to HN, about pg's essay on how to disagree. pg responds. Husafan starts a dialog with pg. There's a response back, clearly continuing the dialog, saying "I felt like I gave that aspect of his post the reply it deserved", referring to "my essay", etc. but instead of being posted under pg's handle, the response is posted by nickb. A little further down the thread, user ncart makes the connection: holy sh*t!!! nickb = pg ????
- stonemetal 14y agoI don't think he did. It started with a built in community, the people in the YC program. In fact at first it was Startup News not HN.