points by sharkweek 12 years ago

My favorite one is for those people who get enough karma to have pg's phone number in the top right corner of the header - pretty cool

DanBC 12 years ago

I'm surprised there isn't a rumour about a secret HN board accessible by invitation only.

  • timv 12 years ago

    There is no HN cabal...

    (Sorry for the other-other-other-site reference)

    • InclinedPlane 12 years ago

      I thought this was a reference to the backbone cabal of the '80s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backbone_cabal

      • timv 12 years ago

        Yes, but indirectly.

        It was a relatively common theme on Kuro5hin (back when it had more than 2 stories per year...) that there was no K5 cabal (in reference to the backbone cabal)

        I was never a heavy usenet-er, so the K5 reference is the one that stays in my mind.

  • JacobAldridge 12 years ago

    Those of us on the Board don't like to brag.

  • krapp 12 years ago

    I thought HN was just a holding area for people not cool enough for lobste.rs anyway?

  • eam 12 years ago

    The first rule of about the Secret HN Board is: You do not talk about Secret HN Board.

    The second rule of Secret HN Board is: You do not talk about secret HN Board.

  • gadders 12 years ago

    There is a YC participants only board though, isn't there?

EGreg 12 years ago

I think you have to have higher karma than pg. He doesn't qualify for his own number.

arethuza 12 years ago

Wait, that number is "karma" ? I thought it was that Bitcoin thing...