Yeah, that was great and I added it to the highlights list at the time.
That's a list we keep of particularly good or cool comments - we used to publish them periodically* but it was too much work. In the meantime anyone who wants to can see the list: https://news.ycombinator.com/highlights. It's just a handful of drops from the ocean and there are tons more out there, so if anyone finds a post that belongs on it, please let me know at [email protected]. I figure this'll be useful for something someday!
* https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Would you please add https://news.ycombinator.com/highlights to https://news.ycombinator.com/lists so it's easy to find in future?
Thank you for all you do, dang.
Perhaps less glamorous but one of my favorite HN moments is a recent link to the wikipedia article on Grandma Gatewood [1] where someone asks “Any of her descendants here on HN? She had 11 and it's been more than half a century now…”. Minutes later…
> Hi! I’m her great-great granddaughter. I actually met the thru-hiker mentioned in the comment above, Dixie, in October 21 and we still keep in touch!
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34321521