Legendary HN comments that aged like milk: skepticism toward Dropbox, Bitcoin, and Cursor
sahilypatel · x · 2026-11-11
A thread compiling legendary Hacker News comments that badly misjudged now-huge products:
- Dropbox (2007): a commenter argued Linux users could trivially build it themselves with an FTP account, curlftpfs, and SVN/CVS.
- Bitcoin (2009): on the original 5-point post, jdoliner wrote it's a "cute idea" but "no way anyone is going to have any faith in this currency."
- Cursor (2023): a commenter said nothing on the site indicated what the software was and wondered if it was "just some sarcastic joke software."
A classic case study in how community intuition fails at inflection points.
Related event: Viral Collection of HN's Most Wrong-Headed Predictions(2 posts)→
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