20 years of YC | ✰Vicki Boykis✰
I saw recently that YCombinator celebrated its 20th anniversary. Hacker News is slightly younger, but to me the two go hand in hand. As far as I can tell, I actively started reading Hacker News around 2011. I don’t remember how I heard about it. It was probably on Reddit or Digg. Once I found it, I started reading every day, mostly because the comment sections were so full of smart people in tech.
20 years of YC | ✰Vicki Boykis✰ 20 years of YC Mar 17 2025 I saw recently that YCombinator celebrated its 20th anniversary. Hacker News is slightly younger , but to me the two go hand in hand. As far as I can tell, I actively started reading Hacker News around 2011. I don't remember how I heard about it. It was probably on Reddit or Digg. Once I found it, I started reading every day, mostly because the comment sections were so full of smart people in tech. At the time I was working as a data analyst , mostly with SQL and Excel. I understood that I would need to learn much more to move into eng
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