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Hacker News

Hacker News is a social news website that caters to programmers and entrepreneurs, delivering... Created by Ycombinator

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Hacker News is a social news website that caters to programmers and entrepreneurs, delivering content related to computer science and entrepreneurship.

It is run by Paul Graham's investment fund and startup incubator, Y-Combinator, and is different from other social news websites in that there is no option to down vote submissions; submissions can either be voted up or not voted on at all, although spam submissions can be flagged. In contrast, comments can be down voted after a user accumulates sufficient "karma" or points gained when submissions or comments are voted up. In general, content that can be submitted is defined as "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity"... More Info »

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Hacker News was added by tabakis in Jan 2014 and the latest update was made in Oct 2016. The list of alternatives was updated Nov 2018 There is a history of all activites on Hacker News in our Activity Log. It's possible to update the information on Hacker News or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

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