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Thank you to dang and sctb

950 points sama | 2 comments | 22 Nov 18 20:26 UTC | HN request time: 0.423s | source

Dan and Scott do an incredible amount of work behind the scenes to make Hacker News what it is. I have never met two more thoughtful community stewards. They usually get more hate than thanks, which they deal with cheerfully. This community means a lot to a lot of people.

So today I wanted to say thanks, on behalf of the HN community.

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cgh ◴[22 Nov 18 21:49 UTC] No.18512786[source]▶
dang has great taste in fiction. I enjoyed our brief discussion of character names in Pynchon and Peake.

Here's why I remember this: no one I know in real life reads fiction. I know plenty of people who read non-fiction (political stuff mostly), but no one in my circle takes the time to just sit back on a rainy Saturday and read something someone else made up. Even my wife is reading Bob Woodward's "Fear", and we aren't even American. So yeah, that little interaction made my day.

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1. clairity ◴[22 Nov 18 21:54 UTC] No.18512810[source]▶
yay pynchon! i buy trystero coffee just for the name (you have to be in the know to find it (but it's not that hard)).
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2. cgh ◴[22 Nov 18 23:21 UTC] No.18513235[source]▶
Ha, that is excellent. I once thought that Pierce Inverarity would be a great name for a beer. It would be peak hipster pretentiousness: a brewery whose beers were named for Pynchon characters. Unfortunately, they'd probably all be IPAs.