At first it was called Startup News, but it was so boring reading about nothing but startups that a few months later we broadened the focus.
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12 years ago today, I finished writing Hacker News. (I delayed launching it till Feb 07, IIRC because the Reddits worried it would mess up their acquisition by Conde Nast.)
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I didn’t know you wrote hacker news!
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In Lisp, right?
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Regrets? :)
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Of course. Reddit is worth orders of magnitude more now. :)
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Thank you for this amazing site , PaulG!
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In Arc, right?
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Today I was thinking that if I had to choose one website to get my news from, it would be HN.
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Cool, still going strong.
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#perspective PS: both Hackernews and Reddit are awesomeThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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