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“12 years ago today, I finished writing Hacker News”

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And 10 years ago we were having fun with Paul's "Arc Challenge" (HN is/was written in Arc): http://blog.jgc.org/2008/02/arc-challenge-explained.html

Something that we, our concentration, CPU time, batteries and our bandwidth bills are thankful for :-)

I love HN due to its simplicity. Their login page isn’t styled much and I love it. It’s fast and UX is to the point.

I usually visit hn.algolia.com as staring page but it feels flawless with HN.

Please don’t mess it up like digg.com

This is something I have extremely mixed feelings about.

On the one hand, HN has enabled so many of us to learn about startups, and has leveled us up in our careers in so many ways.

On the other hand, HN is a bastion of toxicity, is extremely uninclusive, and so all this learning is only available to people willing to lurk in the cesspool.

Inclusivity could certainly be worked on. However, I feel like it is being worked on and I don't actually find it a bastion of toxicity. (I know of a forum I see that way. It isn't HN.)

I can't argue with your experiences, but I've heard from many people (overwhelmingly women), that they hate this place and no longer visit.

I appear to be the highest ranked woman here. My old handle, Mz, was briefly on the leaderboard.

Posting as openly female here has always been challenging. It's better than it used to be. Among other things, I see more women with more than 2k karma than I used to.

There is still room for improvement. My feeling is that YC is remarkably inclusive without really making a big deal out of it. My feeling is the HN mods are interested in making HN more inclusive.

I do realize there are significant challenges. I don't think it is due to HN being a bastion of toxicity.

If you're on the Rust, Postgres / SQLite side you'll be fine.

To people used to far-left echo chambers, any place that isn't a far-left echo chamber is a "bastion of toxicity".

I’m fascinated that you think this. HN has been the only community I’ve ever been a part of that consistently smacks down uncivil commentary—sometimes my own, usually rightly.

Where are you finding a less “toxic” community? I’d love to check it out.

You sure still post job ads on this "bastion of toxicity" though.

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