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Comment by jl | Hacker News Reader

As PG's wife, I think I am the only person who knows exactly how much time, energy and thought he devoted to Hacker News. More than most HN users would guess, that's for sure. I don't think he ever planned it that way and I'm certain this site stole valuable brain power that could have been focused on writing essays. So thank you Paul for spending so much time making Hacker News such a great place to visit each day.

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I was a fan of the essays from way back. It seemed to me like HN was an extension of that process. Almost like "the final essay". The one that is still being written.

I smell an HN movie.

Nah, not enough drama.

More like nothing but drama.

I did not downvote you, but, in a moment like this, when a man who has devoted a significant portion of his life to this community, is departing the very community, are you sure you want to just club all the emotion into a single monotonous word like 'drama' ? Why so much negativity??

I'm pretty sure it was a joke, from both posters.

My comment above ("not enough drama") was directed at the film industry, which (IMO) would never look into making something like YC and HN to a movie. There isn't a clear antagonist, no dramatic turns of events, no "drama" in the sense they're using to sell. I really see no logic behind that idea being downvoted... :-/

I meant it nothing more than a joke.

That can be easily fixed, :p

Thanks JL, he's a good man with good plans and thank you for sharing him. Now you folks have some personal time, you over earned it on many levels, smell those roses.

Both his essays and this site pretty much reshaped my whole view on programming, economics and entrepreneurship, and I know some other people who can say the same thing, so I'd like here to thank you and your husband for all the hard, good work. You created tremendous amounts of value for the world. I do strongly hope PG has some more essays coming ;).

since his duties have to be handed off to three people it makes clear, at minimum after the fact, how much work he was doing

I really appreciate HN; it was my main reason for getting interested in YC (which, early on, I thought was just another Idealab! clone).

Indeed something that looks simple from the outside has a lot of work put into it to get it to where its simple and usable. Great job and even better to hand it over to a set of people willing to carry on the work and ethos

Thank you both. My wife and I love this site.

Thanks JL for sharing and helping him! Hopefully this time investment in HN and Y-Combinator has led to lots of ideas for his coming writing.

The last thing we need is some know it all writing more essays. Starting HN, however, is a real accomplishment.

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