Maybe not most favorite but the good one:
The comment is about how to think about "news /social networks addiction":
Ask HN: Your Favourite HN Comment?
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Re: Ask HN: Your Favourite HN Comment?
#72@dang recently (17 days ago) posted a list of the most favorited HN comments in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24360449
Interesting. I'm surprised the counts for the most popular comments are so low, given the number of users on HN
I don’t know about other folks but I don’t think I’ve ever used the ‘favorite’ feature on comments.
Re: Ask HN: Your Favourite HN Comment?
#73My favourite HN comment was about burnout: Burnout is caused when you repeatedly make large amounts of sacrifice and or effort into high-risk problems that fail. It's the result of a negative prediction error in the nucleus accumbens. You effectively condition your brain to associate work with failure. Subconsciously, then eventually, consciously, you wonder if it's worth it. The best way to prevent burnout is to fol…
This makes a lot of sense, and chimes with my gut feel based approach of following up a long and difficult bit of work with some quick wins or bug fixes before thinking about starting anything else big.
Re: Ask HN: Your Favourite HN Comment?
#74I used to like the writings of a user called something like Marin Country until they were banned! I liked the anecdotes, flow of words, way of speaking. He was a retired programmer with lots of stories and fell across the lines of policial correctness (which moves every year) and got banned.
Re: Ask HN: Your Favourite HN Comment?
#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
Take a break, you must . I know it always feels like you can’t, but you can’t keep working, you will snap. Programmers are hard to replace, it hard to find a good one, and it takes time to ramp up a new one with a codebase. You have more negotiating power than you think. Your comment struck me because I have been in that position before, and I know it really really hurts. But you gotta look out for yourself. Please t…
> You have more negotiating power than you think. That assumes that their manager (1) is aware of how hard it is to find a good programmer, and (2) is rational.
If either of those conditions is satisfied then imo it's time to go. Who wants to work for an irrational manager? (actual lol)
Re: Ask HN: Your Favourite HN Comment?
#76It's very short and not at all in-depth, but this was my favorite comment. It was one of the greatest troll shutdowns I've ever seen: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35083
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#77A commenter talked about his experience with testicular cancer and encouraged other 20-34 year old men to check themselves. So I did, found a lump, and because I found it early it was removed with no further issue. So that's definitely one of my favorite comments! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7120102
HN saves lives! That’s so awesome!!
Re: Ask HN: Your Favourite HN Comment?
#78@dang recently (17 days ago) posted a list of the most favorited HN comments in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24360449
I wish dang could make it into an auto-updating list!
Good idea. Actually we should add most-favorited stories and comments to the lists page (linked at bottom).
Edit: anybody want to suggest any other lists for the lists list?
Re: Ask HN: Your Favourite HN Comment?
#79@dang recently (17 days ago) posted a list of the most favorited HN comments in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24360449
Interesting. I'm surprised the counts for the most popular comments are so low, given the number of users on HN
Favorite feature isn't really easy to discover. You have to click a comment's timestamp to go to its page, then click favorite.
Re: Ask HN: Your Favourite HN Comment?
#80This one.