Ask HN: How did you discover HN?

I think it would be interesting to see how HN users discovered HN.

I remember to this day performing a google search more than 2 years ago and one of the results was an article on HN.

The quality of the posts I found here just struck me so I sticked with HN every since.

How about you? How did you discovered it? What's your story?

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Recommended by a friend. I asked him to "give me a good website with a good signal to noise ratio." I've mostly lurked since.

michaeldhopkins 15y ago ↗

I came from Paul Graham's website which was linked in a 37signals article or comment.

sidwyn 15y ago ↗

Recommended by a friend. Have been addicted since.

ricree 15y ago ↗

A blog post (one of Steve Yegge's, I think) linked to one of PG's articles, and I wound up reading through the archive. At some point, I followed a link from that site to HN.

andymoe 15y ago ↗

http://www.scripting.com (1998/1999) -> http://philip.greenspun.com (sql for web nerds) -> http://joelonsoftware.com -> http://www.paulgraham.com (A plan for spam 2002) -> news.ycombinator.com -> profit?

Something like that. Before this the Joel on Software forum was what I checked daily.

philh 15y ago ↗

I saw pg's announcement on reddit. I didn't actually stick around until later, though.

I also filed an early bug report - you couldn't read comments without logging in.

(I think I found reddit from pg's website, and again didn't stick around until later.)

mooism2 15y ago ↗

People were talking about it on Reddit as being like Reddit used to be before it went downhill.

Apparently this was about 2½ years ago.

instakill 15y ago ↗

Recommended by a friend, via Twitter if that counts.