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

#21

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.

Direct link to Bane's rule post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8902739

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

#25

"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

Sometimes I feel like the colored version of that map should be the official logo of all Internet message boards.

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

#26

"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

Quality entertainment. Unfortunately, the original post is flagged.

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

#28
post #11
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.

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

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

#29

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.

I wonder which startup PG is referring to in the first link...

Also, wow, all those comments of people plugging their level 3 and above startups did NOT age well

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

#30

"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

This was definitely my favorite from the past year at least.
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