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		aragonite on Dec 27, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A list of Hacker News's undocumented features and ... Apparently the account must be created before 2/13/2008: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#hacker...

dang on Dec 27, 2023 [–]

That was because HN got its public start in Feb 2007 and pg wanted to look at users who had joined in the first year.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38779197

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