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PG: The biggest source of stress for me at YC was running HN

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482 points ilamont | 2 comments | 11 Jul 20 21:53 UTC | HN request time: 0.462s | source
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davidgerard ◴[11 Jul 20 23:02 UTC] No.23806940[source]▶
I understand that HN postings and comments used to form part of the assessment process for prospective YC candidates. Is that still the case?
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1. dang ◴[12 Jul 20 04:29 UTC] No.23808822[source]▶
Not really. Actually, it didn't ever really. pg would sometimes recognize a username and that was about it.
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2. davidgerard ◴[18 Jul 20 22:05 UTC] No.23885230[source]▶
Looks like Sam Altman says otherwise: https://ytpak.net/watch?v=kVKaMHgOTP4

"The way we recruit the best people in the world is by reaching them via multiple channels. So the alumni work is really important, hacker news is really important, putting great content online is really important"

pretty sure this isn't what I was thinking of, so still looking