20 Years of YC / HN
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·March 18, 2025tcdent
> Joined 16 years ago
Thanks for all the knowledge HN!
PStamatiou
I remember HN back when it was called “Startup News”. I wrote about it 18 years ago: https://paulstamatiou.com/why-i-enjoy-startup-news
quest88
Hey Paul, thanks for your writings. I enjoy reading your blog. You were one first blogs I started following with an RSS reader (after Vicki :)).
joshdavham
Thanks for sharing this post!
I've only been on HN for a little over a year now and I feel like I've already tremendously benefited from it, much in the same ways that you have. HN is a really inspiring place and it definitely makes me feel less alone in my work knowing that there are others out there like me.
pvg
Giant related thread last week https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43332658
dbg31415
The site design hardly looks a day over 19! (=
quest88
Vicki's blog alone was my motivation in paying for an RSS reader.
RKFADU_UOFCCLEL
It's amazing how you can still register to this place without Javascript, *even though* it uses Recaptcha. Because Recaptcha still has a fallback mode to a (ostensibly) less secure captcha that just requires ticking 3 boxes and is much more usable than the version I get if I enabled Javascript. It would sure be a shame if someone Abused (TM) that. Github too was one of the last websites to support human beings until Microsoft got all nazi (read: schizo) mode with their "it's all for your security" shit locking you out of your account because your mom didn't walk her dog that day which triggered a Microsoft (R) Entra (TM) Advanced Risk Model Analysis (read: regex) [patent pending] alert from reading her GPS data from an advertising provider (Microsoft records your mouse movements like Cloudflare so I wouldn't put it past them).
tl;dr Congratulations for being one of the last real websites alive!!!
firefax
why is your username green, out of curiosity?
philipkglass
Comments by newly registered users show the user name in green. It goes away after the account has been registered for a few days. For example, here's the thread where I made my first comment on the site in 2016. You can see that my name is green there:
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MrMcCall
How one starts is not nearly as important as how one develops on the path to one's end.
And now we have an entire govt full of anti-WOKE numbskulls.
I know how my butterfly wing beats have affected the world; most people just sleep through those effects, never waking up to their importance, never caring enough to care, never having enough sense to value compassion.
"Not like us." --Kendrick
dgfitz
I’m really optimistic that we can move past these kinds of comments. You didn’t really say anything at all.
Virtue signaled, you nailed it.
mmooss
The GP said several things. What is your claim based on? Ironically, it's your comment that's empty. Make an argument.
MrMcCall
> You didn’t really say anything at all.
My point is that how HN started is not nearly as important as how it has evolved and, crucially, how it and its organization operates now, and what is its cumulative societal effect?
I guess you just can't see the criticism, huh?
We are only capable of perceiving that which we care to perceive.
That's what enables narcissists, sociopaths, and psychopaths to keep on sleepwalking through life, callously leaving their trail of destruction and misery, due to their ignorance of how the default animalistic selfishness of our desires rules our decision tree.
Becoming a positively moral person -- i.e. not amoral -- requires conscious effort, deliberate choices, self-reflection, and positive self-evolution.
We are ALL continually evolving ourselves, each and every day. The crucial question is, as always,
"But in which direction, towards greater compassion or greater callous selfishness?"
If a person can't see which direction the world's powerful groups are moving our societies, it's only because they don't want to. I can only show you where the water is, friend. I suggest you take a drink or three, but the choice is yours to make.
As always, I counsel compassion, to be more virtue-ous, and less vice-ous.
I keeep forgetting there's a front page to this site... it's my Slashdot replacement. Imagine if Commander Taco had been funding Myspace, what a world that would have been :)