Hacker News was initially built by YC co-founder Paul Graham as a demonstration of Arc, a new programming language he’d been working on. So YC set out to be something different - a community of hackers building companies on their own terms. Startup incubators had been a highly visible part of the dot-com crash, and Silicon Valley was still skeptical of the concept nearly a decade later. But Y Combinator was in an unusual position in those days anyway. The idea of a VC having its own news aggregator was a bit outlandish in 2007.
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