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Threads from back then. Others?

Sequoia Capital’s 56 Slide Presentation Of Doom - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=328685 - Oct 2008 (36 comments)

A CEO's Sequoia Meeting Notes - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=327937 - Oct 2008 (61 comments)

Sequoia Rings the Alarm Bell: Silicon Valley Is in Trouble - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=327279 - Oct 2008 (75 comments)

Sequoia's "RIP Good Times" presentation (on SlideShare) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=328708 - Oct 2008 (2 comments)

Sequoia Capital: Armchair quarterbacks - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=331202 - Oct 2008 (37 comments)

"RIP Good Times": Silicon Valley's Cuban Missile Crisis - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4080268 - June 2012 (118 comments)

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Wow it seems like back then there was a much higher concentration of founders/vc people on here. Just goes to show how big tech has gotten over the last 14 years.

I think it is even more about how big hackernews has gotten... slashdot was the place back then

RIP slashdot. Too many in-built ads now...

Yes, I go back to slashdot every now and then and cry. It was so good in its glory days.

Makes me wonder what will come after HN. Everything has a lifespan.

In 2008 it had only recently changed names from 'Startup News', and YC was giving startup founders $6,000 each (+ $6,000) to do the program - this week I read about someone doing a pre-seed raise of $1.2 million!

By this rate, in 14 years we'll be seeing pre-seed rounds of $20 million!

The constant employee shaming has scared everyone away.

the number of comments "back then" compared to now is a testament to how large HN and the tech ecosystem in general has grown.

Still had a good chuckle at someone commenting "This is one of those threads that just never dies" on a post with fewer than 40 comments, though.[0]

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=330357

Part of it is an increase in the "tech" pie, but I think it's also a matter of people just becoming aware of Y-Combinator's Hacker News.

I was aware of Y-Combinator & Hacker News for a long time, but, for whatever reason, I never felt the need to make an account until 2020.

I think never dies was in relation to all the other similar threads from that time https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31441587

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