Ask HN: What is your favorite HN post? • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by bausshf » Tue, Jan 08, 2019, 12:48 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)

While correct. New posts happen all the time.

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

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Post by skilled » Tue, Jan 08, 2019, 12:57 PM UTC

sureaboutthis wrote: post #10

Next up: What's your favorite color?

Blue, thanks for asking.

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

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Post by raihansaputra » Tue, Jan 08, 2019, 1:02 PM UTC

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.

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

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Post by m-i-l » Tue, Jan 08, 2019, 1:04 PM UTC

See also the YC curated selection of HN highlights[0] and also an algorithmically generated list of (recent) best comments[1].

[0] https://blog.ycombinator.com/category/hacker-news/

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments

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

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Post by JunaidBhai » Tue, Jan 08, 2019, 1:17 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.

This looks great. Will save it somewhere.

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

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Post by resters » Tue, Jan 08, 2019, 1:19 PM UTC

bemmu wrote: post #2

All the criticism in the Dropbox post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

Ironically much of the criticism and skepticism was dead on, but that didn't stop Dropbox from becoming a very successful startup, though I think the ultimate future of the company is not certain as of yet.

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

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Post by kgwxd » Tue, Jan 08, 2019, 1:24 PM UTC

uptown wrote: post #8

I’m not sure if this is #1 but this is one of my favorites. “What're the best-designed things you've ever used?” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13682949

I read that as "You're the best-designed thing you've ever used", which sounds like a inspirational poster in a church office, so I expected a bunch of rants about intelligent design :)

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

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Post by chatmasta » Tue, Jan 08, 2019, 1:24 PM UTC

"The 4-color map theory is bunk," [0] a comment in which a user boldly refutes modern mathematics and, when faced with contradictory evidence, continues to double down on his assertions.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16862553

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

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Post by barry-cotter » Tue, Jan 08, 2019, 1:31 PM UTC

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.

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

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Post by detaro » Tue, Jan 08, 2019, 1:33 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.

> Also, how do I link to individual comments

Click on the timestamp next to the username