Hacker News: stripefanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=stripefanHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sat, 05 Sep 2026 06:25:00 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by stripefan in "Ask HN: When did computers stop being fun?"]]>Interesting — why does this post get penalized from any top HN page even after 40+ points in two hours?

]]>Sun, 17 May 2026 00:10:49 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48164956stripefanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48164956https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48164956<![CDATA[New comment by stripefan in "Ask HN: When did computers stop being fun?"]]>In my view, this period surprisingly correlates with the first leg of the Fed's balance-sheet expansion [1], from ~$800B to ~$2.2T in 2008.

As a reminder, this was the era of the early iPhones and the first MacBook Air [2] — tech was mature enough, but not yet overcrowded with VCs.

[1] https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bst_recenttren...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20080223071127/http://www.apple....

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