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Hacker News is a social news website initially built by YC co-founder Paul Graham as a demonstration of Arc, a new programming language he'd been working on. Today Hacker News is a go to source for news and discussion surrounding computer science and entrepreneurship, used by millions of people monthly. The site facilitates deeper nested discussion about technology, science and is used by startups and people promoting new ideas in ShowHN section.

Tumblr is a an easy to use microblogging site and social network first released in 2007. On Tumblr, people can share stories via blogs and other media such as photos, GIFs, links and third party platform embeds such as Spotify playlist and tracks. All users of Tumblr can follow each other to get up-to-date content from the creators you live. There is also private publishing features which allow you to share your stories only to a select group or community. Over 500 milion people use Tumblr to share contet on the web for free.

StumbleUpon was a popular content and website discovery platform that discontinued its operation in June 2018. With StumbleUpon, users could enjoy fresh websites and content delivered to them at random or by randomly by category, or randomly by user preference. In 2019 the creators of StumbleUpon created a new content-based discovery platform called Mix.

Mix is a content discovery platform by the creators of StumbleUpon.