Hacker News Reader

To add further clarification, Paul Graham was one of the founders of YC and built Hacker News in a LISP dialect named Arc (See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9270478 for more information).

...and wrote a couple of classical common lisp books. He has obviously contributed a lot to HN’s culture.

I personally found out about both reddit and HN by means of deeping further into lisp in the internet, beyond his “ANSI Common Lisp” book which I used in university.

That essay sent me down the functional language paradigm. I never did a lot of lisp but have done a lot of Haskell since.

I don’t get to do near as much these days, but the lessons I’ve learned have made me a better developer for sure.

Type safety and pure functions make debugging and refactoring an entirely different beast

And HN was (or still is?) written in Lisp

Still is, as far as I know. Technically ARC, which is a descendant and in the same family.