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Ask HN: How did you discover Hacker News?
I can't actually remember how I came across HN for the first time - would be interested to hear how other people have.
- aps-sids 11y agoI heard about it from a friend while in college.
- Keverw 11y agoPeople I follow on Twitter into startups mentioned HN from time to time. Ever since then I mainly read this site, but don't post that often.
- a3n 11y agoI'm pretty sure I was trying to figure something out, and searches led me to HN. I certainly don't follow anyone or anything. Possibly intriguing backlinks from SO to HN.
- DanBC 11y agoA bunch of links were posted to the Hackaday forums. I lurked for a few months before getting an account.
- caretcaret 11y agoI was being interviewed by an engineer at Palantir about 3 years ago, and they asked me if I browsed HN. I don't remember exactly how it came up, but it was a rhetorical question aimed at setting up some context.
- akhilcacharya 11y agoWait..you interviewed at Palantir after your freshman year?
- byg80 11y agoIt was mentioned on Snapzu, a similar community.
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- brudgers 11y agoI am pretty sure it was a story on Techmeme and an HN discussion was one of the related links and at the time I was getting back in to following tech news and learning how it had changed with ubiquitous broadband. I just treated HN as a news aggregator for what felt like a long time but isn't relative to how long I've been a member. I didn't really get the weighting of stories over time and finding stories sort of sticking around on page two and three days after rolling off the front page was a bit confusing coming from the Technmeme front page. I think what got me to sign up to make noise was the story about PG crashing the secret what-do-we-do-about-YC dinner for VC's...though it might have been the flatulence simulation iPhone app wars, since it was in days when HN rewarded snark and there were few higher internet pleasures for me than snarking on Apple to piss off its insufferable adorers. In the long run, HN allowed me to find an audience for writing on less lowest-common-denominator topics and pursue more interesting interests than upsetting apple carts.
- CokedUpWarlock 11y agoI only just joined after finding an option for updates after installing Pushbullet. I came to the site, found it interesting, and decided to create an account.
- gilney 11y agoCoding horror blog
- tonybaroneee 11y agoI believe it was from a post made by a high profile developer I follow on Twitter.
- veddox 11y agoAfter discovering PG's essays, I spent a couple of weeks trawling through them. Eventually came across "What I learned from Hacker News" and decided to check it out...
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- mnbvcxzlkjhg 11y agohyperreal
- losjdusoi 11y agoPeople on 4chan's technology board were joking about this place.
- mnbvcxzlkjhg 11y agolong time listener first time caller. adios.
- partisan 11y agoJoel Spoelsky's Business of Software forum. I saw one or two mentions that brought me here about 2 years before my first posting here.
- sohkamyung 11y agoProbably due to mentions on other websites. Before Hacker News, I was browsing Reddit for interesting news but it quickly became unrealistic; the SNR was way too low and the comments not worth reading. Hacker News is currently my site of choice for quickly finding interesting news that may not get coverage by other media. The comments generated are usually of reasonable quality and worth reading, something I usually skip on other sites.
- bopf 11y agoMy CTO send me a link to a good article on HN
- chris_j 11y agopg posted, I think on Reddit, about his new project Startup News. It had the same feel that Reddit had recently lost and great comments. I've been mostly lurking ever since.
- ofcapl_ 11y agoat my first job other programmers were reading it and suggested me to do the same.