Ask HN: Who are the famous contributors to Hacker News?

8 points·amichail··14 comments

By "famous", I mean people who are already well-known and successful in their domain -- not just entrepreneurs but also academics, authors, etc.

I'm especially interested in people that few of us know about but who are regular contributors.

An example of such a person:

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=michael_nielsen

P.S. If you are such a person, feel free to tell us.

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Previous similar discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=224739

Somehow nobody there mentioned Paul Buchheit:

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=paul

They got all the other well-known people I could think of.

Why do you care?

Does being an author automatically make you famous? For me, it's just a job. (Not that I don't enjoy it, of course, but I've found people to be WAY too excited to meet people who write books. ;)

It depends on how well his/her book(s) sell with respect to other books in that domain.

I'm famous on Twitter.

If you point and stare, they'll leave. So ixnay on the arfucking-stay, mm-kay?

you mean like the reddit guys?

Sure, if they are regular contributors to this forum and few people here know their names.

ah, then you might want to take a look at http://hnstartups.com/ for a list of some of the users on here and what startups they do

A bit of spam on that page :/

Took care of most of the spam on the page.

yeah just noticed that too, hopefully markbao sees this thread and will clean it up

This service could use some spam detection.

http://hnstartups.com/startup/275

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