Does Hacker News still do in person meet ups?

A new London one was planned for September 8th but cancelled due to the venue becoming unavailabel (day of Queen's death). https://www.meetup.com/london-hacker-news-meetup/events/2881... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32660447 . If I recall 180 people signed up.

There used to be bimonthly socials in SF that didn't have any particular focus, they were just an excuse for to hang out (and sometimes acquire a hangover).

Anyone in the Bay Area interested in a HN Meetup?

It does if you want it to. These have always been privately organized. If you set one up in Chicagoland, let me know.

An LA event would be a lot of fun!

I'm in a hackathon group with a few people locally and a few people from HN. We hang out on Discord and at my house. Though some of us have never met in person. Does that count?

Anyone here in NYC? Would love to do an IRL meetup

Let me know if anybody wants to meet up in Washington DC!

Anyone else in Singapore interested in a HN meetup?

I'd do a Bend, OR or Portland OR meetup for sure!

New Zealand? Worth a try :P

Other than using the HN name, and publicizing on HN, what goes into a "Hacker News" in-person event?

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If anyone in the Tel Aviv area is interested, we (robusta.dev) would love to meetup!

ITT: A disturbing lack of people requesting a Seattle meetup!

I have a small group of founders I could likely convince to join. Anybody have any venues they would recommend? I've found Optimism to be pretty great

Anyone want to do a Sacramento / Davis / Folsom meet up?

I can host!

I have seen a post about meetup in India a few days ago but sadly, they used whatsapp for coordination so I didn't join. Wonder what happened to that?

Amarillo, Texas! Anyone? :-)

Wait - people still do IRL?!

I went once or twice to the one here in San Diego, years ago. They were smart and interesting people as I recall.

I have not visited any hackathon since late 2019, I so miss that events. I would like to visit some offline event for HN crowd.

Anyone in Dublin interested in a HN Meetup?

How about Houston, Texas? Good timing, too, since I may soon need to recruit for a new startup. ⊙⊙

I want to start hosting meetups and lightning talks in Montreal Canada. Would anyone be interested?

It'd depend on where you are, for one - would be helpful to know.

e.g, the Tokyo meetup is still a thing, met back in July: https://hntokyo.doorkeeper.jp/events/138928

Anybody else in Philadelphia?

Atlanta, anyone?

Let's talk startups, AI/ML, and disrupting the incumbents!

I'm actually surprised there doesn't seem to be a Minneapolis/ St. Paul MN contingent. The Twin Cities had a lot of interest groups in the 90's.

Toronto - who is in?

I'd be down to organize an event in Pittsburgh

Anyone in Florida?

I’m down if anyone is in the Northern Virginia/DC area. Ping me, I’ll buy the first round. I’d love to hear your story.

I’m not aware of any events that successfully capture what HN is. If you want to make contacts, go to YC startup events and meet people. The smartest and most talented people aren’t usually wasting their time with general catch-all tech events. They’re on a mission and aim to meet people who can genuinely help them accomplish it.

I’m not spitting at hackathon type events, but let’s be real — they target recent grads.

I’d love to be proven wrong on this, because I’d promptly attend the events that I don’t believe exist.

Raleigh / the Triangle anyone?

Anyone in Italy, possibly Milan ಠ‿ಠ

Hawaii? Oahu specifically, anyone out there? I'd love to meet the community.

Portugal, either Porto or Braga. Let me know if you'd like to meet!

Atlanta?

Poland/Poznan interested inmeetup in Oct/Nov?

DFW, Texas, anyone? I'd be down for a monthly meetup.

Anyone in Germany? :)

Montréal, anyone? :)

Anyone in Bangkok? Would love to do an IRL meetup.

Yes! Applications are open for YC Winter 2023!

Started out /s, but upon consideration I imagine YC really is the closest you could get to the spirit of HN in an in-person meetup.

It’s a long shot, but is anyone in Chile?

Anyone in Nashville, TN looking to meet up?

Anybody in Ft. Myers, Florida?

Philly?

Anyone in Valencia, Spain?

anyone in boston? I could use some more hacker pals!

Anyone in HK?

Chicago?

Someone should make a global map with a web app that you can place a search engine protected email address on + GPS location - to contact in case of desire to grab a coffee over locale-focused startup & tech convos. Boom.

HN is always frothing about WFH so wouldn't it contradict the central HN tenancy being with other human beings is bad?

Once upon a time HN was about creating things.

Create a meetup and see what happens? There's a lot of cool stuff you'd learn doing that.

See what other locations people around you use for meetups. Run one and iterate. Start as open as possible.

I would NOT want to meet anyone from here tbh. I fear what people write here are how they are in real life.

Not saying they are bad people just from the bad takes and endless pedantic arguments are something I would quickly grow tired in a spoken conversation.

You can skip over paragraphs but in real life you can't.

In real life there's no flag button, unfortunately.

Just try to get your bivalent covid booster first.