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Hacker News was not meant to be something actually used, it was originally designed to be a way to test Arc[0]. Additionally, the code was meant to be a short a

Hacker News was not meant to be something actually used, it was originally designed to be a way to test Arc[0]. Additionally, the code was meant to be a short as possible[1]. [0] http://paulgraham.com/hackernews.html http://paulgraham.com/hackernews.html [1] http://paulgraham.com/arcchallenge.html http://paulgraham.com/arcchallenge.html

dang 12y ago
> Hacker News was not meant to be something actually used Of course Hacker News was meant to be used.
- malisper 12y ago
  My bad. What I wanted to say was that Hacker News was not meant to be used at the scale it is used today.
wglb 12y ago
... a place for current and future Y Combinator founders to exchange news From one of the articles you indicated. Sounds to me like it was intended to be used.