Mar 2014, Paul Graham

I’m delighted to announce that Daniel Gackle (pronounced Gackley), who has already been doing most of the moderation for the last 18 months, is going to join YC full-time to be in charge of the HN community. Many HN users know Daniel as gruseom, though now he’s going to switch to the slightly more legit sounding dang.

https://blog.ycombinator.com/meet-the-people-taking-over-hac...

Haha yes I discovered this like a year ago, and still get a kick out of it when I'm so overloaded that I am reflecting on usernames as opposed to getting work done...

Also surprised to learned that back then, but it's too late I already got used in reading it as "dang"

In my head it's always been "dang" as in rhymes with "clang". dan+g is just the etymology.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22767296

I first assumed D. Ang

I've been assuming literal dang as in "dang! the update crashed the OS"

Yes. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22767296

Same here... so happy to get this reaffirmed by @dang himself in a sibling comment!