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Ask HN: What are some of the best HN comments that you've read?
Have you read a comment here that influenced you significantly, had some great ideas in it, was memorable for some reason, or was just fun to read? Share the link here.
- shortoncash 11y agoI almost wish they'd just add a patio11 and tptacek tab across the top bar. :) Sometimes it's not just the comment, but the context in which the comment is made.
- caseysoftware 11y ago+1 to patio11. When I'm skimming comments, I make sure to actually read his fully. As much as we all say we're governed by reason, there's still some timidity and doubt and he has this great ability to call people on it in a constructive way.
- enraged_camel 11y agoI also like tokenadult's posts for anything biology-related.
- stevewepay 11y agoChuckMcM can always be counted on to have a thoughtful and interesting comment. He is my #1 favorite HN commenter.
- bane 11y agoI'm totally a ChuckMcM fan. Thoughtful, experienced, witty. I always look for his comments in threads I'm interested in and have yet to be disappointed.
- swah 11y agoWorkaround: I add those names and many others to the list of words to be highlighted on HN (Pearls extension)...
- walterbell 11y agoAnimats post on "Maximizing shareholder value", which had many responses, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8709880 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8709880
- koenigdavidmj 11y ago"Did you win the Putnam? If not, then don't be bolder than this guy." "Yes, I did." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079 A parody of being a startup founder: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4166183 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4166183
- CPLX 11y agoThe Putnam reply is one of the great moments in Internet commenting history IMHO.
- Mandatum 11y agoThe followup is the icing on the cake, "Only once?" > Yes, only once. But I actually consider my first score on the Putnam (53, ranked 53.5th in North America) to be my most impressive performance on the Putnam, considering that I was only 14 years old at the time.
- lemming 11y agoIt's one of my favourite comments ever.
- cperciva 11y agoOh, so this is why it suddenly popped up again in my twitter feed... I'll say here what I posted there a moment ago: Seven years after making a fool of myself on Hacker News, I wonder if my epitaph will be "Yes, I won the Putnam".
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- chubot 11y agoHow does the Putnam winner Ravi Vakil fit into that thread? From reading the context it is about cpervica saying he's more competent than 90% of startup founders, and other people are saying that's arrogant. Where did Ravi come in -- was he a startup founder?
- torinmr 11y agoAdvice by sillysaurus3 on 'recommended reading' for programmers, mainly focusing on C and distributed systems. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7602457 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7602457
- profquail 11y agoHere's an old one which is still awesome: "How I crashed HN" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=639976 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=639976
- jh3 11y agobdunn on justifying your costs as a freelancer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8705179 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8705179 patio11 and the Fair Credit Reporting Act: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7135833 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7135833 spolsky on detecting toxic customers: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1987223 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1987223 tptacek on naming your company: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4684845 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4684845 The journey of Flappy Bird: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7207943 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7207943 Programming is terrible: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6469360 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6469360 On being a consultant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6443135 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6443135 Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6263458 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6263458 Are designers crazy? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5002262 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5002262 Why learning to code is so hard: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4933178 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4933178 "I don't understand": http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4930262 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4930262 death and regrets: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4540459 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4540459
- vezzy-fnord 11y agoThis mini-essay tour of finance, Keynesian economics and other tangents by lionhearted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=843170 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=843170
- DanielBMarkham 11y agoWow. That was long. It was also very good. Thanks for the link.
- rkaede 11y ago"You just have to figure out which part of the animal kingdom you're in" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=469940 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=469940
- hkmurakami 11y agoThe top response to "what's th best way to get 5% on a million dollars" is the best piece of investing advice I have seen on this forum. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7028803 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7028803
- galfarragem 11y agoIn general, if you read the comments from top HN'ers [1] you will find a lot of perls: that's the reason why they got the karma.. Sometimes you can find also great comments [2] from less visible HN'ers. E.g. I suggest a "niche" comment on the best way to negociate a claimed domain name [3]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments https://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8603821 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8603821
- lfx 11y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9522459 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9522459 on topic "Ask HN: How to talk smart?"
- mindcrime 11y agoI like a lot of tptacek's[1] comments, as long as he's talking technology / security and not politics. On politics we're pretty far apart, but there's no question the guy knows security damn well, and always has something insightful to say. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tptacek https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tptacek
- jhildings 11y agoA bit OT but this is quite funny and a bit related http://bradconte.com/files/misc/HackerNewsParodyThread/ http://bradconte.com/files/misc/HackerNewsParodyThread/