Ask HN: What are some of your favourite comments on Hacker News?

4 points by crsr 5 years ago · 3 comments · 1 min read

Here's one to get started: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25377191

It's a story of how the Airbnb guys taught a valuable lesson to someone in the same YC batch. Very inspiring.

What are you favourite stories/comments you have accumulated on HN?

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I had a brief friendly / neighbourly exchange of comments with (at 4 sigmas of certainty) a well-known sci-fi author a few months back, not long after reading two of their novels set not far from where I live. I’m not prone to celebrity worship, but that was a treat. It’s also a reminder that we (with the benevolent and not heavy-handed guidance of the mods) have created a relatively functional society here, which is all too rare in the world.

brudgers 5 years ago

Dear Lumber Yard, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34423

Tomte 5 years ago

Indexing a notebook: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13222476

The Common Lisp Condition System: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22749568

Reading C declarations: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18587980

Job review: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20609978

Prolog meta-evaluation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19294191

An ode to Lotus Notes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16443973

Consulting rates: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15995255

Graphs of the memory hierarchy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4048204

What's bayesian and frequentist statistics: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4741146