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Hacker News: Day 2

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By day 2, it was already obvious that it was going downhill and was going to be just like reddit sooner or later.

You're... kidding, but I had to think about it.

At least Hacker News is a little bit more professional/moderated/on topic.

Actually looking at the archive it looks like it started being interesting around January 2008 or so.

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://news.ycombinator.com/

we are still here, aren't we?

I like the story about premium Gmail coming soon: $25 for 6 gigabytes of storage. Instead, now I get 7+ gigabytes for free. I love living in the future.

Wow, number 6 is ev saying that Twitter is taking up too much of his time and he is selling Odeo.

Interestingly, somewhere between July 13th and August 30th, 2007 it got renamed to "Hacker News" (I can't remember that happening, or why).

Also, I can't remember how I even signed up for HN in the first place, but it must've been mentioned by pg somewhere in the early days (I'm 939 days old on HN today, and the site was launched 940 days ago.)

I think it was posted to reddit - that's how I remember hearing about it first.

I hate being a grouch about it, but I preferred the focus of Startup News to be honest.

Wow I just looked and I also am 939 days old but I don't for the life of me remember coming here and thinking this had opened yesterday. I feel like I must've seen it on programming reddit or something because I followed that pretty closely back then.

Ooh, I am over half as old at HN :) I feel old, at least in website years. What was it called before hacker news?

So, how did it go with Octopart, sam?

It's still going well! That was our first blog entry, you can catch up the rest of them here http://octopart.com/blog .

Wow, we've come a long way from then. When that blog was posted, Octopart was running off a desktop computer that I bought for $50 at a yard sale. And I was sleeping on a couch in Andres room in his apartment in Berkeley.

Did you finally get health insurance?

Yup, we all did.

Interesting to see which names were there from the beginning. A few unexpected ones I still see today.

It's weird how many of these links I remember as if I just saw them yesterday. Generally I have a memory like a sieve, but something about this format makes things stick in my mind.

Not much has changed.

Very cool!

The usernames are interesting. Some are still around, and many of them are (now hard to get) first names like sam, matt, greg, justin.

Yes, my name is impossible to get in its base form, even when I'm around from the very beginning.

"... my name is impossible to get in its base form, even when I'm around from the very beginning. ..."

the best you can get is http://web.archive.org/web/20071011015055/news.ycombinator.c...

Wow, looks like you signed up the very first day. My account is 938 days old.

pg made me do it.

That's one benefit to having a short nickname that's a mispelled word. Although, it's tougher to snag the name than it used to be.

I really liked the 50 items per page format. Could be even more. I suspect there is a price to pay for that somewhere though.

"On Having Balls, Part II: Staying Hungry"

best part, this link: http://design.caltech.edu/erik/Misc/design_quotes.html

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