“12 years ago today, I finished writing Hacker News”
"Finished" is the right word. Apart from small UI tweaks it's still the same site as in 2007...<p>And that's part of what makes HN great! I can't help but think that a team of Very Serious Expensive UX Professionals would have made a mess of HN thrice over by this time. (Can't you just imagine the 2010 rewrite in Java and GWT, and the 2014 redesign as an Angular SPA with sophisticated giant web fonts all over the place?)