Ask HN: How did you discover Hacker News?
10 points | by chistev 2 days ago
29 comments
- propellortail 3 hours agoI can't remember. It's been at least 15 years? HN is still worth reading and the level of discourse is still quite high (though slightly worse than a decade ago). But it's refreshing to have a place where the comments are better than the prose of the linked articles in question.
- tsoukase 1 day agoI 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.
- ColinWright 2 days agoI 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.
- kirubakaran 1 day agoI started reading Paul Graham's essays after listening to his talk: https://web.archive.org/web/20130729231533id_/http://itc.con...
- varunKvK 9 hours agoI used to search hacker news and used to get the YC website and accidently got into this.
- dang 1 day agoThrough pg's essays, which I discovered via a Joel Spolsky blog post. Perhaps this one: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/06/13/how-microsoft-lost...
- chistev 1 day agoMan, you've been here since the beginning!
- kirubakaran 1 day agoLooks like I created my account a week before dang! I was lurking for a few months before I actually created the account.
- brudgers 1 day agoLinks 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.
- jaredsohn 1 day agoStrangely I think it was TechCrunch. But I was reading pg's essays years earlier (maybe through Joel On Software) and already had known about yc.
Think it was related to the initial request for startups post: https://techcrunch.com/2009/08/16/y-combinator-starts-seedin...
- fabianholzer 1 day agoI was researching frameworks for building progressive web apps and stumbled over "Hacker News as a PWA" (https://github.com/tastejs/hacker-news-pwas).
- FergusArgyll 4 hours agoCS50x at the end there was a short list of places to check out
- defrost 1 day agoGot 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 1 day agoCoworker about 10 years ago. Took me a few years to register an account.
- cantalopes 1 day agoI 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
- gadders 18 hours agoMichael Arrington told everyone about it on TechCrunch.
- runjake 1 day agoA pg essay almost two decades ago, when the site was still called Startup News.
- larrykubin 1 day agoI 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.
- lordluca 12 hours agoit was recommended by both codex and code
- verdverm 2 days agoCollege roommate 17 years ago while doing NSF summer research, I am eternally grateful Eric!
- mna_ 1 day agoA chatter linked HN on #commonlisp on freenode back in 2011.
- rationalist 1 day agoIt was so long ago (with a different account), that I don't remember.
- dnnddidiej 1 day agoCant remember. Probably searching for an answer to some coding problem.
- JessieJanie 1 day agoMy AI agent, Ziggy Stardust, told me about it.
- m-hodges 1 day agoSaw I post on /r/programming in 2011.
- j4nek 23 hours agosomeone on irc once posted a link to a hn discussion. :)
- mkbkn 14 hours agoI don't remember but probably it was StumbleUpon. Around 2012.
- shanewei 2 days agoRecommended by Codex
- pvaldes 1 day agoHum... 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 1 day agovia Paul Graham
- andrewmcwatters 1 day ago[dead]