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Re:HN Leaders — What are the most upvoted users of Hacker Ne... by _fat_santa on Monday August 08, 2022 @10:28AM (#32385804)
I really like this. One peculiarity about HN culture I found is that commenters will often comment something tangental to the subject of the post, so I often find myself reading really insightful comments on threads I otherwise have zero interest in. This is cool because it surfaces all those cool sometimes totally tangental comments.
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Re:HN Leaders — What are the most upvoted users of Hacker Ne... by Mc91 on Monday August 08, 2022 @10:54AM (#32386147)
> One peculiarity about HN culture I found is that commenters will often comment something tangental to the subject of the post, so I often find myself reading really insightful comments on threads I otherwise have zero interest in.

Four days ago I was reading a thread I did have interest in about hiring freezes at Google and Facebook, and there was a tangential thread, which was even more insightful, between the Linux maintainer for ext4 (the Linux filesystem probably 99% of Android devices use, and a high percentage of Linux servers too), and another Googler/Xoogler about whether the Google storage engineering team could make non-incremental contributions, and which contributions were worthwhile and which weren't ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32323734 ).

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Re:HN Leaders — What are the most upvoted users of Hacker Ne... by nottorp on Monday August 08, 2022 @10:58AM (#32386211)
That's why I read HN comments. You never know when they'll go on a very interesting tangent. For very loose values of tangent.
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Re:HN Leaders — What are the most upvoted users of Hacker Ne... by mywittyname on Monday August 08, 2022 @11:26AM (#32386623)
Also, the "{person involved} here! {Comment full of insider information}."

One could probably compile a book of great comments in this vein that have appeared on HN over the years.

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