Ask HN: How did you find HN?

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by eam • 17 years ago

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I was wondering how did everyone else came across HN in the first place? For me it was several months back when I googled "hacker news" in an attempt to find something better than techcrunch or mashable. HN was the first result.

yan• 17 years ago

Two(?) years ago I read about Y Combinator since I knew about pg from his essays. Browsing yc's site, I came across news. After a few months of lurking, I registered.

ErrantX• 17 years ago

A friend linked me to their "rate my startup" submission.

noodle• 17 years ago

i stumbled across YC (2-3) years ago while looking at some of their companies (while casually looking at jobs), and stumbled across HN in the process.

tjr• 17 years ago

Had been reading pg's essays since around 2002, and saw the link to Hacker News (or Startup News at the time) not long after he added it to his website.

jacquesm• 17 years ago

I've been reading HN for quite long, mostly parallel to /., then one day I figured /. is no longer for me (I think it may have been one too many instances of browsing at -1 during breakfast or so), so I registered here, a little less than a year ago.

I visit /. very rarely now, the best stuff from there makes it to HN anyway and the S:N ratio is many times higher here than there.

Frankly, I'm amazed it is as large as it is without being overrun by the wild hordes. Apart from one single instance of a downright abusive user ('arrington', a couple of weeks before I joined up) I have seen only very little of that sort of thing here.

I try to keep my 'memberships' to social news sites down to a minimum, I've registered the usual (fb, twitter and so on) but I only really use HN.

Mankhool• 17 years ago

From Techcrunch, which I found while searching for info on iPhone apps.

stefano• 17 years ago

Googled lisp -> pg's essays -> arc forum -> HN.

christiancoomer• 17 years ago

My boss told me about it when we were having a conversation about favorite blogs/daily reading.

showerst• 17 years ago

I found HN via a link on reddit, probably somewhere in the programming subreddit.

japanesejay• 17 years ago

Through a friend. and now im addicted!!

Mz• 17 years ago

My oldest son was talking about some interesting articles. I asked him to send me the links to a couple of things. They were articles written by PG. I read his stuff for many weeks, aware from comments he made that HN existed but I had no reason to think it was my cup of tea. Somewhere along the way I decided I need to learn a programming language and joined HN to ask some questions.

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