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Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite HN post?

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Post by scott_s » Tue, Jan 08, 2019, 2:49 PM UTC

Some of my actually favorited posts:

jjoonathan on Oct 6, 2014 on: Glut of postdoc researchers stirs quiet crisis in ... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8416875, "For most people it's not, but some people subscribe to the notion that choice implies consent/endorsement/approval ..."

scardine 12 months ago on: Ask HN: My company plans an ICO despite my opposit... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16126082, "Like almost all problems in life you have only 4 options: ..."

graycat on Mar 28, 2015 on: The FedEx Problem https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9282104, "Yes, at FedEx, we considered that problem for about three seconds before we noticed that we also needed: ..."

Animats on Nov 21, 2015 on: How a little bit of TCP knowledge is essential https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10608356, "That still irks me. The real problem is not tinygram prevention. It's ACK delays, and that stupid fixed timer. ..."

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite HN post?

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Post by rndgermandude » Tue, Jan 08, 2019, 2:50 PM UTC

mortivore wrote: post #28

bausshf wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While correct. New posts happen all the time.

Also, new people frequent here all the time, and opinions can change.

Related: https://xkcd.com/1053/

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite HN post?

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Post by pjc50 » Tue, Jan 08, 2019, 2:50 PM UTC

barry-cotter wrote: post #19

Yudkowsky Ambition Scale https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4509934 How Do I Start Being a Consultant? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4245960 Bane's rule, you don't understand a distributed computing problem until you can get it to fit on a single machine first. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8902739 Edit: Thanks detaro for telling me how to link to individual comments.

The first is an amazing hubris detector.

The "going deep" post reminds me of the "programmer-archaeologist" role from the Vernor Vinge novels, where a long-running spacefaring civilisation has built up a very large amount of code on which their magic nanotech runs. This provides opportunities to dig for long-forgotten things .. or exploits.

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite HN post?

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Post by gitgud » Tue, Jan 08, 2019, 2:59 PM UTC

raihansaputra wrote: post #13

I've compiled mine (which are mostly comments) on my blog: https://raihansaputra.com/hn-wisdom . It's hard to say that I am following those advice though. The gap between knowing and action is hard to cross, somehow.

Nice work!

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite HN post?

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Post by apeace » Tue, Jan 08, 2019, 3:00 PM UTC

“I have a slight fascination with sweeteners.”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9440566

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite HN post?

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Post by twtw » Tue, Jan 08, 2019, 3:08 PM UTC

sokoloff wrote: post #5

@cperciva in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079

Those two comments come up frequently, but it's worth noting that in the whole preceding thread 'cperciva was being a pretty massively arrogant jerk.

That thread is a classic example of why the most capable people aren't necessarily the ones you should want to work with.

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite HN post?

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Post by dlkf » Tue, Jan 08, 2019, 3:12 PM UTC

Lets say you were just hired as the President of a furniture company. The owner says he knows it's good furniture but even despite huge investments they can't seem to sell any furniture. Your job is to turn things around...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18022154

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite HN post?

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Post by fb03 » Tue, Jan 08, 2019, 3:15 PM UTC

I really enjoy this one:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18853966

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite HN post?

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Post by theSealedTanker » Tue, Jan 08, 2019, 3:15 PM UTC

raihansaputra wrote: post #13

I've compiled mine (which are mostly comments) on my blog: https://raihansaputra.com/hn-wisdom . It's hard to say that I am following those advice though. The gap between knowing and action is hard to cross, somehow.

Really good

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite HN post?

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Post by yitchelle » Tue, Jan 08, 2019, 3:27 PM UTC

fghtr wrote: post #9

This question was already answered several times here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1487605 (2010) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3996652 (2012) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12496558 (2016) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16846229 (2018) (possibly more)

Should HN allow one's favourites to be shared?