Announcing Y Combinator Startup News (2007)

ramblenode 9y ago ↗

> You can tell a lot about the users of a site like this from the the links they post and their comments in discussions. There are a number of Reddit users that I know only by their usernames, but I know must be smart from the things they've written. We're counting on the same phenomenon to help us decide who to fund.

It sounds like "karma" may have a deeper meaning than on Reddit. Do good things--they may literally pay off one day.

elmigranto 9y ago ↗

> Do good things

I think popular ones would be more accurate.

[deleted] 9y ago ↗

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legulere 9y ago ↗

It will show them, that you spend way too much time on hacker news reading and commenting stuff.

chaostheory 9y ago ↗

https://news.ycombinator.com/hackernews.html

kasbah 9y ago ↗

> Each user's voting power will then be scaled based on whether they vote for good stories or bad ones.

I guess they gave up on that? Would be interesting to hear how it panned out.

pori 9y ago ↗

The community sure has come along way. I appreciate that the design is still pretty much the same. Even still running on Arc lang!

Announcing Y Combinator Startup News (2007) (news.ycombinator.com)

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