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Ask HN: How did you discover Hacker News?

8 points by chistev about 16 hours ago | 17 comments | View on ycombinator

kirubakaran about 7 hours ago |

I started reading Paul Graham's essays after listening to his talk: https://web.archive.org/web/20130729231533id_/http://itc.con...

jaredsohn about 2 hours ago |

Strangely 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...

brudgers about 3 hours ago |

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.

dang about 11 hours ago |

Through 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...

ColinWright about 15 hours ago |

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.

defrost about 2 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.

larrykubin about 2 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.

CobaltFire about 11 hours ago |

Coworker about 10 years ago. Took me a few years to register an account.

cantalopes about 6 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

JessieJanie about 2 hours ago |

My AI agent, Ziggy Stardust, told me about it.

dnnddidiej about 6 hours ago |

Cant remember. Probably searching for an answer to some coding problem.

rationalist about 11 hours ago |

It was so long ago (with a different account), that I don't remember.

m-hodges about 11 hours ago |

Saw I post on /r/programming in 2011.

shanewei about 16 hours ago |

Recommended by Codex

verdverm about 15 hours ago |

College roommate 17 years ago while doing NSF summer research, I am eternally grateful Eric!

andrewmcwatters about 9 hours ago |

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