Hacker News Reader

Comment by DrJokepu | Hacker News Reader

I remember the day I joined HN in March 2009. The entire front page was full of Erlang articles. Like, almost every single one. I didn’t know it at the time, but apparently that was part of an intentional effort to scare away newcomers who weren’t “hackery” enough.

I thought to myself, if these people are really this crazy about Erlang, maybe there’s something to this website after all and created an account. I have to say, I was somewhat disappointed when it turned out that it was all a ruse!

View on HN

The say Steve Jobs died, every single story was about that. Not complaining, the day was treated well this way.

Actually: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2011-10-05

Also look at https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2011-10-06

and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3078988

WOw pretty good memory you guys! I see you were watching HN that day. I don't think I even knew what HN was then.

I find it ironic, or fitting, that the 30th story on Oct 6 2011 is actually about Flash, a thing that died relatively soon after, in no small part due to Steve!

In fact, I learned about it from Hacker News! Someone posted it here as a “self” post a good 20 minutes before news outlets or even Apple reported it.

Same here. I’ll never forget walking into my boss’s office with the news. We ended up grabbing our iPods (remember those) and going for a walk together in our music. That was a sad day but a special moment in my career.

I was eating at a campus canteen in a research institute in East Asia. And I saw it on TV. It was weird. I remember where I was on 9/11 and for that.

I found out while sitting in a hotel lobby at Abode's MAX conference in LA. Watching the news ripple through the tech crowd attending was something.

Can you provide a reference to where it was indicated this is a ruse?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512145

> day I joined HN in March 2009.

Happy Cake Day!

Reply on news.ycombinator.com