Hacker News Then and Now
Hacker News is 15 years old
Launched in: February 19, 2007
Developer(s): Paul Graham
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How Hacker News looked like and how it is now:
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Now
Description
Hacker News is a social news website focusing on computer science and entrepreneurship. It is run by Paul Graham’s investment fund and startup incubator, Y Combinator. In general, content that can be submitted is defined as “anything that gratifies one’s intellectual curiosity.” The site was created by Paul Graham in February 2007.[3] Initially called Startup News or occasionally News.YC., it became known by its current name on August 14, 2007.It developed as a project of Graham’s company Y Combinator, functioning as a real-world application of the Arc programming language which Graham co-developed.
