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Re:Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web by DanBC on Thursday November 02, 2017 @12:32PM (#15611908)
One difference is that HN is hosted on a server under the control of YC.

If YC ever decide to destroy HN they can.

With an HN Usenet newsgroup it'd be distributed across all the servers that carry that group. You could download software and host it yourself.

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