Hacker News' favorite Xkcd comics (2022)

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Post by monort » Sun, Jan 28, 2024, 11:38 AM UTC

Hacker News' favorite Xkcd comics (2022)
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Post by fouronnes3 » Sun, Jan 28, 2024, 12:11 PM UTC

I knew 927 was gonna be the top one. It's so useful I sometimes refer to it verbally at work during meetings to great effect.

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Post by luca3v » Sun, Jan 28, 2024, 12:16 PM UTC

I would have guessed "Dependency" https://xkcd.com/2347/, but it did not even make the top 10

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Post by PoignardAzur » Sun, Jan 28, 2024, 12:19 PM UTC

fouronnes3 wrote: post #2

I knew 927 was gonna be the top one. It's so useful I sometimes refer to it verbally at work during meetings to great effect.

Yeah, it's kind of funny that "xkcd 927" is almost a verb now.

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Post by dotancohen » Sun, Jan 28, 2024, 12:19 PM UTC

I would think that the most upvoted comic would be the "most loved", but that was not even considered. Posting is easy, garnering upvotes is the "love" signal.

As is usual with statistics, the methodology greatly affects the outcome.

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Post by kenrick95 » Sun, Jan 28, 2024, 12:21 PM UTC

Surprised that 949 (File Transfer) didn't make it to top 10

Also "(2022)"

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Post by teleforce » Sun, Jan 28, 2024, 12:30 PM UTC

fouronnes3 wrote: post #2

I knew 927 was gonna be the top one. It's so useful I sometimes refer to it verbally at work during meetings to great effect.

For me the top 5 will be 927 (Standards), 378 (Emacs), 342 (Internet), 303 (Compiling) and Crypto (386), but not in the order of significance.

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Post by snitch182 » Sun, Jan 28, 2024, 12:31 PM UTC

kenrick95 wrote: post #6

Surprised that 949 (File Transfer) didn't make it to top 10 Also "(2022)"

I second that.

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Post by _kwef » Sun, Jan 28, 2024, 12:31 PM UTC

dotancohen wrote: post #5

I would think that the most upvoted comic would be the "most loved", but that was not even considered. Posting is easy, garnering upvotes is the "love" signal. As is usual with statistics, the methodology greatly affects the outcome.

I think most people would upvote a reference to a xkcd based on how relevant they think it is to the post, not how much they love it.

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Post by ekianjo » Sun, Jan 28, 2024, 12:46 PM UTC

> https://xkcd.com/1357/

This aged very poorly in light of what happened in the midst of the COVID19 pandemic.