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Ask HN: What's your favorite HN post?
- vinchuco 8y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=febin&comments=t https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=febin&comments=t https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=febin https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=febin https://news.ycombinator.com/lists https://news.ycombinator.com/lists
- kbenson 8y agoI'm not sure what your point is. What's being asked is for the wisdom of the crowds, and for people to come forward with what they think their favorite short-list of HN posts are. This has been asked multiple times before, and it's generally a useful and interesting discussion, and new things are learned. If anything, linking to searches for prior times it's been asked[1] would be good. Also searches for people asking about favorite comments[2]. 1: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=favorite%20hn%20post&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&dateRange=all&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?query=favorite%20hn%20post&sort=byPo... 2: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=favorite%20hn%20comment&sort=byPopularity&prefix=false&page=0&dateRange=all&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?query=favorite%20hn%20comment&sort=b...
- vinchuco 8y agoI can see your point.
- jasonkostempski 8y agoThose lists should have RSS feeds of their own. I feel like I'd much rather have "active" as my primary feed.
- gamegoblin 8y agoOf course worth mentioning is the “comeback of all time”: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079
- amanzi 8y agoIt was funny reading that thread and seeing an early post from Drew Houston about a startup called getdropbox he was working on... https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dhouston https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dhouston
- return1 8y ago... offering a job to the guy who did the comeback ... which apparently he did not take
- wskinner 8y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16846229 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16846229
- ShabbosGoy 8y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=984720 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=984720
- mrep 8y agoI love HN because I can find tons of high quality opinions/information about many different subjects I am interested in. Therefore, my favorite HN post changes for what I am interested in which is highly time sensitive based on what I am currently doing. I highly recommend everyone to search for "hacker news <some_new_thing_(generally_technology)_you_are_looking_into>" when researching new things. Example: I was building a django app in my spare time and I wanted to know more about django channels which allows one to create web sockets. I Google searched "hacker news django channels" and found 116 comments talking about it from other professionals when it was first released: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11305869 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11305869
- jxub 8y agoI've got quite a lot of good posts in my favourites. Hard to point at one in particular though.
- mtmail 8y ago"Options vs Cash" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14505378 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14505378 "Ask HN: Sell my startup for $14M because I can't raise $2M?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15314663 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15314663 "First employee of startup? You are probably getting screwed" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2949323 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2949323 "How I Sold My Bible App Company" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11032480 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11032480 "Ask HN: Who is willing to work for coin?" actually a negative example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14776408 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14776408
- wglb 8y agoThis ranks right up there for meP https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13241427 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13241427 That, and the Great Putnam Comeback.
- freehunter 8y agoIs there any context behind this? Or is it just the joke of "HN Premium doesn't exist"?
- wglb 8y agoYes and who it is coming from: nine fives.