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Y Combinator is 19 years old. Hacker News was launched in February 2007, so it just turned 18. For the longest time I thought Hacker News must have been some p
by weinzierl 2y ago
Y Combinator is 19 years old. Hacker News was launched in February 2007, so it just turned 18.
For the longest time I thought Hacker News must have been some proof of concept for Reddit and must pre-date it, which is not true. Reddit was launched in June 2005, shortly after Y Combinator.
- paganel 2y agoAs I remember it HN was initially a “response” to Reddit written in Arc, as by that point Reddit had already become focused on politics and some other more general stuff and had left its programming focus behind. HN was meant to fill that gap, with the important addition of the “entrepreneurial” / start-up business mambo-jambo behind which I could never get, but there were a lot more people that did get it seriously back then and which now have a lot more assets than people like me (didn’t care about start-ups, we were in here only for the programming stuff) now happen to posses. Lesson learned, I guess.