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Hacker News: Day 2
- ashishk 17y agoVery cool! The usernames are interesting. Some are still around, and many of them are (now hard to get) first names like sam, matt, greg, justin.
- SwellJoe 17y agoYes, my name is impossible to get in its base form, even when I'm around from the very beginning.
- larrykubin 17y agoWow, looks like you signed up the very first day. My account is 938 days old.
- SwellJoe 17y agopg made me do it.
- bootload 17y ago"... my name is impossible to get in its base form, even when I'm around from the very beginning. ..." the best you can get is http://web.archive.org/web/20071011015055/news.ycombinator.com/user?id=SwellJoe http://web.archive.org/web/20071011015055/news.ycombinator.c...
- icey 17y agoThat's one benefit to having a short nickname that's a mispelled word. Although, it's tougher to snag the name than it used to be.
- unalone 17y agoInteresting to see which names were there from the beginning. A few unexpected ones I still see today.
- dtap 17y agoWow, number 6 is ev saying that Twitter is taking up too much of his time and he is selling Odeo.
- jack7890 17y agoNot much has changed.
- embeddedradical 17y agobest part, this link: http://design.caltech.edu/erik/Misc/design_quotes.html http://design.caltech.edu/erik/Misc/design_quotes.html
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- coderdude 17y ago"On Having Balls, Part II: Staying Hungry"
- davidw 17y agoBy day 2, it was already obvious that it was going downhill and was going to be just like reddit sooner or later.
- asdlfj2sd33 17y agoYou're... kidding, but I had to think about it.
- NathanKP 17y agoAt least Hacker News is a little bit more professional/moderated/on topic.
- zjj 17y agoActually looking at the archive it looks like it started being interesting around January 2008 or so. http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://news.ycombinator.com/ http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://news.ycombinator.com/
- prakash 17y agowe are still here, aren't we?
- rudd 17y agoI like the story about premium Gmail coming soon: $25 for 6 gigabytes of storage. Instead, now I get 7+ gigabytes for free. I love living in the future.
- jacquesm 17y agoI really liked the 50 items per page format. Could be even more. I suspect there is a price to pay for that somewhere though.
- abstractbill 17y agoIt's weird how many of these links I remember as if I just saw them yesterday. Generally I have a memory like a sieve, but something about this format makes things stick in my mind.
- acangiano 17y agoSo, how did it go with Octopart, sam?
- sam 17y agoIt's still going well! That was our first blog entry, you can catch up the rest of them here http://octopart.com/blog http://octopart.com/blog . Wow, we've come a long way from then. When that blog was posted, Octopart was running off a desktop computer that I bought for $50 at a yard sale. And I was sleeping on a couch in Andres room in his apartment in Berkeley.
- aditya 17y agoInterestingly, somewhere between July 13th and August 30th, 2007 it got renamed to "Hacker News" (I can't remember that happening, or why). Also, I can't remember how I even signed up for HN in the first place, but it must've been mentioned by pg somewhere in the early days (I'm 939 days old on HN today, and the site was launched 940 days ago.)
- TrevorJ 17y agoOoh, I am over half as old at HN :) I feel old, at least in website years. What was it called before hacker news?
- abstractbill 17y agoI think it was posted to reddit - that's how I remember hearing about it first. I hate being a grouch about it, but I preferred the focus of Startup News to be honest.
- latortuga 17y agoWow I just looked and I also am 939 days old but I don't for the life of me remember coming here and thinking this had opened yesterday. I feel like I must've seen it on programming reddit or something because I followed that pretty closely back then.