Ask HN: Does anyone else get strange looks from people who see you reading "Hacker News"?

Re:Ask HN: Does anyone else get strange looks from people wh... by pierrefar on Thursday April 23, 2009 @09:27AM (#575520)

I was once answering a question at a packed lecture and suggested to someone that they should read a site called Hacker News. There were lots of giggles and mumblings immediately as I said that.

Their loss really.

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Re:Ask HN: Does anyone else get strange looks from people wh... by aptimpropriety on Thursday April 23, 2009 @11:45AM (#575821)

Whenever I tell my friends about HN, I always call it "YCombinator news". Since that is what it was presented to me as from the outset (i.e., a url (http://news.ycombinator.com) with a 'hacker'-free endorsement), the "Hacker News" title has never really stuck. Even among people in the know, I still usually refer to it as YCombinator news.

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Re:Ask HN: Does anyone else get strange looks from people wh... by SwellJoe on Thursday April 23, 2009 @02:05PM (#576174)

I find I can't help but say, "news dot YC", and then if there are any puzzled looks, I amend that with, "The Y Combinator news site". I've never been able to think of it as Hacker News, either.

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Re:Ask HN: Does anyone else get strange looks from people wh... by pierrefar on Thursday April 23, 2009 @05:45PM (#576542)

news.yc or YCombinator news just don't roll off the tongue as easily as Hacker New or even Innocuous News :)

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Re:Ask HN: Does anyone else get strange looks from people wh... by andreyf on Friday April 24, 2009 @03:07PM (#578019)

news.yc works well for me - I wonder if YC will end up buying the .yc TLD at some point? :)

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