For years I've (half) jokingly tried to persuade Paul to start a Twitter competitor, but to no avail.https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1281824854010929154 …
Here's a little known fact about the history of Y Combinator. The single biggest source of stress, for me at least, was not picking startups or advising them or Demo Day or even fighting with people on the startups' behalf. It was running HN. Don't start a forum.
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Do you think YC would have been the same without HN?
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Yeah dang and scott and others are remarkably patient.
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Scott left 10 months ago.
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If you were writing Hacker News today, what would you do differently? Any design choices? (This is an experiment: I think the question has an interesting answer, but asking you in off-topic threads seems to be the only way to get it. This one happens to be on-topic!)
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HN is remarkably successful at not becoming a toxic wasteland, but I know it was a lot of work.
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HN is fantastic though. Best news source there is.
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Hear hear, I’ve been a moderator.
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Why not? I was thinking of starting one just yesterday
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Incidentally, very few people grasp the amount of effort Daniel Gackle expends running HN now, and what an amazing job he does.
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@mwseibel made a point of giving kudos to dang during our batch (S17)
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