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> The brilliance of YCombinator, IMO, is HackerNews....

Before HN there was PG's blog.

> Before HN there was PG's blog.

Before pg's blog, there was /.,

How is /. now compared to YC?

I think you misinterpreted the comparison. It's not /. to YC, but /. to HN

slashdot was/is a message board on hacker-like things a proto-HN sans the startup stuff.