Hacker News
The front page of the internet for hackers and makers
Hacker News is a social news aggregator run by Y Combinator focused on technology, startups, and topics of intellectual interest. Users submit links and text posts which are then ranked by upvotes from the community. It features comment threads for discussion on each submission.
Users submit links or text posts, the community upvotes them, and stories are ranked on a front page with threaded comment discussions.
software developers, entrepreneurs, and technically-minded readers
Background.
- Status
- launched
- Business model
- free
- Company
- Y Combinator
- Launched
- Feb 2007
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