Hacker News Reader

pg, is it possible to get the traffic data in text format? For those who want to try and visualize it differently.

How'd you spread the word at launch?

http://www.ycombinator.com/announcingnews.html

The site was originally called Startup News. We changed the name and focus about 6 months later:

http://www.ycombinator.com/hackernews.html

Ha, wow, thanks for sharing. For some reasons, I thought hacker news happened before you guys started funding startups. Please feel free to share other documents from the early YC or HN.

That's funny, it always felt to me like it was "Startup News" for a lot longer than 6 months. If I had to guess and couldn't look it up, I would have said 1-2 years. Interesting how powerful first impressions can be.

Congrats for completing 6 wonderful years. I regularly read HN since past 1-2 years. It's been a valuable source for providing news about startups and programming. I also contribute my own articles to HN and the HN community has been extremely helpful in making me a decent writer.