Announcing Y Combinator Startup News (2007)

https://news.ycombinator.com/hackernews.html

> Each user's voting power will then be scaled based on whether they vote for good stories or bad ones.

I guess they gave up on that? Would be interesting to hear how it panned out.

> You can tell a lot about the users of a site like this from the the links they post and their comments in discussions. There are a number of Reddit users that I know only by their usernames, but I know must be smart from the things they've written. We're counting on the same phenomenon to help us decide who to fund.

It sounds like "karma" may have a deeper meaning than on Reddit. Do good things--they may literally pay off one day.

> Do good things

I think popular ones would be more accurate.

It will show them, that you spend way too much time on hacker news reading and commenting stuff.

The community sure has come along way. I appreciate that the design is still pretty much the same. Even still running on Arc lang!