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pilsetnieks on Sept 3, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Left Alone by Its Owner, Reddit Soars

PG said in an interview that they first wanted to have a HN subreddit but back then reddit didn't yet have subreddits and it was taking too long for them to implement that capability so PG made HN on his own.

kanamekun on Sept 3, 2012 [–]

That sounds like PG's comment here! http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3141132

PG talks a bit more about how Reddit inspired HN here: http://ycombinator.com/announcingnews.html

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