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Ask HN: What is the most useless HN thread you have saved?

8 pointsby amirouchealmost 8 years ago
A few must have in their armory the sickest moment of HN

3 comments

mtmailalmost 8 years ago
Actually from 3 days ago <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=14776408" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=14776408</a>. It&#x27;s about paying employees with crypto currency.<p>The one with the most controversy was &quot;I freed an innocent man from prison. Hacker News failed him.&quot; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11958567" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11958567</a> Basically the poster previously asked the community to review legal papers (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10323025" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10323025</a>) which would&#x27;ve required hours to get into that topic (life of that person). It had a good ending (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12010760" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=12010760</a>). But the thread in 11958567 was him complaining HN didn&#x27;t do anything.<p>Stupid submission, especially ASK HN, get flagged fast. I remember a couple &quot;what should I do this weekend?&quot;, &quot;where can I buy a car&quot;, &quot;what server should I get?&quot; (without providing any other information) and similar question which are so open ended that the first question has to be to ask for more information.
brudgersalmost 8 years ago
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=34423" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=34423</a>
barkingalmost 8 years ago
This would definitely be a contender.