Congratulations YC! I remember prior to HN, pg used to post his essays to Slashdot under the username Bugbear and all the attendant sniping and lame memes that would come back in response. Hacker News was a breath of fresh air and continues to be my favourite online community.
Thankfully, Natalie Portman setup a Beowulf cluster with hot grits to handle my memes!
I quite like(d) that silliness - but your could always choose to downgrade and hide 'funny' posts. I still miss the post/comment visibility functions from Slashdot.
Looks like pg 'joined' 6 Oct 2006; so we've a bit to wait for the HN 20th anniversary.
