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jcsalterego

HN lurkers such as dlsspy, pquerna, and zedshaw are my hacker heroes.

They need not introductions but I suppose links won't hurt:

http://hackerne.ws/user?id=dlsspy

http://hackerne.ws/user?id=pquerna

http://hackerne.ws/user?id=zedshaw

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I like that. A lot of heroes go quietly about their business of making the world a little better, without having to wear their underpants on the outside to draw attention to themselves.

I'm not sure you can describe Zed Shaw as someone who doesn't draw attention to himself.

Fair point, though I was speaking more generally about heroes :)

Interesting, I don't know of these except zed shaw from article titles (catchup time).

I do know wheels and patio911 are always a good read though

strangely enough, I run into wheels a lot in #startups but rarely see his comments.

FYI, the domain 'hackerne.ws' is registered by someone other than YC. Even if it currently resolves to the same machine, it might not in the future. Even if the current owner's intentions are pure, the domain could lapse into someone else's control.

So, better not to promote, nor login-to, 'hackerne.ws' URLs, unless it becomes the canonical domain linked from http://ycombinator.com.

(Why does it work? Seems the News.YC code doesn't care about the 'Host' header in requests, which it really ought to, so that people don't get into a habit of using sketchy URLs that could bite them down the road.)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=84039

If you search for it http://searchyc.com/hackerne.ws, there's more discussion.

I'm familiar with the history. Whatever eusman's original stated intentions with the domain, my points stand. Using/linking-to News.YC via a nonofficial 3rd-party domain is a risky habit.

You should also note the claimed owner of the 'hackerne.ws' domain left as an active user in a huff over 2 years ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=151412

Oh, well I will continue using hackerne.ws in my browser but refrain from propagating the URLs. Cheers.

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