Ask HN: How did you discover Hacker News?

8 comments

• dang 2 hours ago
  Through pg's essays, which I discovered via a Joel Spolsky blog post. Perhaps this one: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/06/13/how-microsoft-lost...
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  • chistev 2 hours ago
    Man, you've been here since the beginning!
• ColinWright 7 hours ago
  I drew a graph of connections between Paul Graham essays, and coloured them via a PageRank-style weighting algorithm. I emailed it to PG, and he suggested I post it here.
• CobaltFire 2 hours ago
  Coworker about 10 years ago. Took me a few years to register an account.
• rationalist 3 hours ago
  It was so long ago (with a different account), that I don't remember.
• m-hodges 3 hours ago
  Saw I post on /r/programming in 2011.
• shanewei 7 hours ago
  Recommended by Codex
• verdverm 6 hours ago
  College roommate 17 years ago while doing NSF summer research, I am eternally grateful Eric!
• andrewmcwatters 1 hour ago
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