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Ask HN: What is the most useless HN thread you have saved?
A few must have in their armory the sickest moment of HN
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]
- barking 9y agoThis would definitely be a contender.
- mtmail 9y agoActually from 3 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14776408 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14776408. It's about paying employees with crypto currency. The one with the most controversy was "I freed an innocent man from prison. Hacker News failed him." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11958567 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11958567 Basically the poster previously asked the community to review legal papers (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10323025 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10323025) which would've required hours to get into that topic (life of that person). It had a good ending (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12010760 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12010760). But the thread in 11958567 was him complaining HN didn't do anything. Stupid submission, especially ASK HN, get flagged fast. I remember a couple "what should I do this weekend?", "where can I buy a car", "what server should I get?" (without providing any other information) and similar question which are so open ended that the first question has to be to ask for more information.
- brudgers 9y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34423 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34423