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I mean it when I say that software engineering as a career would not be as fun if HN didn't exist.

Here is a well moderated safe haven for technical and business discussion, incredibly popular yet holding itself to a higher intellectual standard than the rest of the internet, where I can ask questions, share opinions, learn from others, publicise my startup or pet project and be taken seriously.

Long live Hacker News.

>>sph+(OP)
+1, this place has (mostly) managed to retain what made it special despite becoming more mainstream due the popularity of the SWE career in the last decade.

>>sph+(OP)
> I mean it when I say that software engineering as a career would not be as fun if HN didn't exist.

I wanted to make gentle fun of this then realized I feel exactly the same way