[HN Gopher] 20 Years of YC / HN
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20 Years of YC / HN
Author : mooreds
Score : 77 points
Date : 2025-03-18 01:52 UTC (21 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (vickiboykis.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (vickiboykis.com)
| pvg wrote:
| Giant related thread last week
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43332658
| quest88 wrote:
| Vicki's blog alone was my motivation in paying for an RSS reader.
| PStamatiou wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| 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 :)).
| PStamatiou wrote:
| Thanks for following along!
| Stratoscope wrote:
| Stammy! In an odd coincidence, you came to mind the other day
| as I was putting on deodorant.
|
| Many years ago you wrote a post where you called a deodorant
| company to ask how many "shoups" to use (where a shoup is one
| swipe of deodorant).
|
| I don't seem to be finding the post now.
|
| Was that you, or do I have you mixed up with someone else?
| RKFADU_UOFCCLEL wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| why is your username green, out of curiosity?
| philipkglass wrote:
| 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:
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12535347
| runako wrote:
| TIL the "new user" status stays with the post, even after
| it disappears from new posts by the user.
| sillysaurusx wrote:
| That's actually a new feature.
| joshdavham wrote:
| 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.
| firefax wrote:
| 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 :)
| aussiegreenie wrote:
| I was reading Reddit and saw a link to hardware.slashdot.org. I
| learnt that slashdot still existed. And with the relaunch of
| Digg, I thought I was having a flashback to 1999.
| dbg31415 wrote:
| The site design hardly looks a day over 19! (=
| fritzo wrote:
| What a relief, what a sanctuary for sore eyes!
| tcdent wrote:
| > Joined 16 years ago
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| Thanks for all the knowledge HN!
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