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j4nek 8 minutes ago [-]
someone on irc once posted a link to a hn discussion. :)
runjake 49 minutes ago [-]
A pg essay almost two decades ago, when the site was still called Startup News.
tsoukase 4 hours ago [-]
I was hovering over PC forums since 2000 until in 2018 I stumbled upon here. My first thought: where the hell was this treasure hidden all this time? Second thought: are there such gems for other fields (my field-medicine, sports, travel etc)? I found none with so high quality, curration, expertise.
I drew a graph of connections between Paul Graham essays, and coloured them via a PageRank-style weighting algorithm. I emailed it to PG, and he suggested I post it here.
Links to HN on Techmeme, and I was on Techmeme because I was interested in memes.
I was interested in memes because I had read Daniel Dennitt's Consciousness Explained back in the mid 1990's and was on the internet looking at them because the meme meme had become more mainstream.
Or to put it another way, I found HN through intellectual curiosity as a distraction from my practice collapsing in the sub-prime meltdown...it was long ago in a galaxy far far away.
defrost 14 hours ago [-]
Got a tip from a fellow admin on IRC (Freenode v1.0) and made an account (since lost) in 2007 - followed up in late 2008, been an on and off reader / commenter since then, more so lately given less hands on work IRL.
CobaltFire 23 hours ago [-]
Coworker about 10 years ago. Took me a few years to register an account.
larrykubin 14 hours ago [-]
I think I signed up one of the first days after it launched, it was called Startup News. Either from a pg essay or reddit, can't remember which.
cantalopes 18 hours ago [-]
I think i got linked here from a slashdot article. That one is flooded with russian trolls nowadays so i mostly visit hacker news, and people are nicer here too
mna_ 10 hours ago [-]
A chatter linked HN on #commonlisp on freenode back in 2011.
rationalist 23 hours ago [-]
It was so long ago (with a different account), that I don't remember.
dnnddidiej 18 hours ago [-]
Cant remember. Probably searching for an answer to some coding problem.
JessieJanie 14 hours ago [-]
My AI agent, Ziggy Stardust, told me about it.
m-hodges 23 hours ago [-]
Saw I post on /r/programming in 2011.
pvaldes 8 hours ago [-]
Hum... don't remember. The oldest HN post that I can positively remember right now is the Wash my Ferrari problem from 2012 so it should be via Debian forums
geldedus 8 hours ago [-]
via Paul Graham
shanewei 1 days ago [-]
Recommended by Codex
verdverm 1 days ago [-]
College roommate 17 years ago while doing NSF summer research, I am eternally grateful Eric!
Think it was related to the initial request for startups post: https://techcrunch.com/2009/08/16/y-combinator-starts-seedin...
I was interested in memes because I had read Daniel Dennitt's Consciousness Explained back in the mid 1990's and was on the internet looking at them because the meme meme had become more mainstream.
Or to put it another way, I found HN through intellectual curiosity as a distraction from my practice collapsing in the sub-prime meltdown...it was long ago in a galaxy far far away.