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		mkr-hn on March 31, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I've decided to stop upvoting articles that have n... I've noticed two distinct groups on HN: People like you, who come to HN for startup news People like me, who come to HN for HN's take on news The rift is causing more headaches for both sides as time goes on (and it's not going to go away on its own), so it's reasonable to split HN into two subsites: Hacker News and Startup News.

upgrayedd on April 1, 2011 [–]

Us old-timers know Hacker News was originally called Startup News but got changed to Hacker News back in 07: http://ycombinator.com/hackernews.html

pg explains his reasoning pretty clearly there.

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