Some of my actually favorited posts:<p>jjoonathan on Oct 6, 2014 on: Glut of postdoc researchers stirs quiet crisis in ... <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8416875" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8416875</a>, "For most people it's not, but some people subscribe to the notion that choice implies consent/endorsement/approval ..."<p>scardine 12 months ago on: Ask HN: My company plans an ICO despite my opposit... <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16126082" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16126082</a>, "Like almost all problems in life you have only 4 options: ..."<p>graycat on Mar 28, 2015 on: The FedEx Problem <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9282104" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9282104</a>, "Yes, at FedEx, we considered that problem for about three seconds before we noticed that we also needed: ..."<p>Animats on Nov 21, 2015 on: How a little bit of TCP knowledge is essential <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10608356" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10608356</a>, "That still irks me. The real problem is not tinygram prevention. It's ACK delays, and that stupid fixed timer. ..."
Yudkowsky Ambition Scale<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4509934" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4509934</a><p>How Do I Start Being a Consultant?<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4245960" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4245960</a><p>Bane's rule, you don't understand a distributed computing problem until you can get it to fit on a single machine first.<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8902739" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8902739</a><p>Edit: Thanks detaro for telling me how to link to individual comments.
“I have a slight fascination with sweeteners.”<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9440566" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9440566</a>
"The 4-color map theory is bunk," [0] a comment in which a user boldly refutes modern mathematics and, when faced with contradictory evidence, continues to double down on his assertions.<p>[0] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16862553" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16862553</a>
These are from my notes (the quotes below may be boring but related discussions are good imo):<p>"My working theory is something like “romanticism/emotionalism vs. abstract rationalism”; if you’re writing something that benefits from immediate experience and emotional input (e.g. Kafka writing about nightmarish bureaucracy after working all day in an insurance firm) then it is better to write at night, after the events of the day have happened and your mind has been operating for 12+ hours."
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18369337" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18369337</a><p>"Classes get in the way between the programmer and the problem. They force you to reify your thinking into "things" (classes) that demand names and citizenship rights, so to speak, in the system. These "things" don't really exist, but we act like they do, and so increasingly see the problem in terms of the classes we've defined."
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3717715" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3717715</a><p>"One thing that I find sorely missing in many teams is onboarding documentation. So when you come in, document everything that you need to do (required permissions, development environment setup, mailinglists, subscriptions) and how to do it."
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17353854" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17353854</a><p>"The real value of Flask is that it makes you appreciate what Django does by default.
When I first started learning Python / web frameworks, I went with Flask because it was smaller and "simpler". As my project grew however, I had to organize it. I was basically imitating what Django gives you by default, though less cleanly."
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16935441" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16935441</a>
@cperciva in this thread: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079</a>
I've compiled mine (which are mostly comments) on my blog: <a href="https://raihansaputra.com/hn-wisdom" rel="nofollow">https://raihansaputra.com/hn-wisdom</a>. It's hard to say that I am following those advice though. The gap between knowing and action is hard to cross, somehow.
All the criticism in the Dropbox post:
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863</a>
my favorite by far was the very first thread on the Snowden revelations: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5830633" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5830633</a><p>comment by comment you could sense the earth shattering awareness slowly setting in, or how the HN crowd suddenly went from unquestionable faith in big government to "oh lord what have we done".
I'd like to ask a parallel meta-question: How can we make better use of HN's existing 'favorite' feature?<p>Currently, we have the option to click on 'favorite' to add submissions or comments to a publicly visible list. Occasionally (a couple times a month?) I do this for comments that I think are excellent: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=nkurz&comments=t" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=nkurz&comments=t</a><p>Some other users do the same, but I don't really know how many, because there isn't really an interface to explore this. It looks like about half the top of the "leaders" list make use of this feature, although in some cases these might just be accidental clicks.<p>Anyway, it would seem like there should be some great way to make use of this information, but I don't know what it would be. A simple list of recently favorited comments? Marking on the comments that have been favorited? Just more prominence to what a user's favorites are?<p>Probably there is some even better way: How can we make better use of HN's 'favorite' feature?
I really enjoy the, "what's your stack?" threads that pop up every now and then. It's always interesting to see what people are using, how they're using it, and why they made the decisions they did.
I think about this "tech has it so much better" take often: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11370776" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11370776</a>
I can't find it anymore, but from it I learned for the first time that functional programming can be understood simply as programming using component-oriented design - from then on, my favorite programming concept. I have a huge interest in software composition, so here's at least something I could find that explains it well:<p><a href="https://alvinalexander.com/scala/fp-book/how-functional-programming-is-like-unix-pipelines" rel="nofollow">https://alvinalexander.com/scala/fp-book/how-functional-prog...</a>
Posted a mere three hours before this thread, regarding writing code in a language more reliable than Bash.<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18852855" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18852855</a>
I’m not sure if this is #1 but this is one of my favorites.<p>“What're the best-designed things you've ever used?”<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13682949" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13682949</a>
See also the YC curated selection of HN highlights[0] and also an algorithmically generated list of (recent) best comments[1].<p>[0] <a href="https://blog.ycombinator.com/category/hacker-news/" rel="nofollow">https://blog.ycombinator.com/category/hacker-news/</a><p>[1] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments</a>
Producer vs. Consumer<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3555237" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3555237</a>
I like this one:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18853966" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18853966</a>
Lets say you were just hired as the President of a furniture company. The owner says he knows it's good furniture but even despite huge investments they can't seem to sell any furniture. Your job is to turn things around...<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18022154" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18022154</a>
I have really enjoyed reading peoples recommendations on what they have learned and how they have grown, this post on "What has the past 12 months taught you?" is really interesting: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17316120" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17316120</a>
Here's my favorite comment, which I believe deserves status as a law of the internet: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1012082" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1012082</a>
This one, about the "medicinal benefits" of Cinnabon: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15615654" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15615654</a>
You can view everyone's favorites in their profiles. [1]<p>[1] - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=JunaidBhai" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=JunaidBhai</a>
This is an all-time gold:<p>"Did you win the Putnam?"<p>Yes, I did.<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079</a>
I really enjoy this one:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18853966" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18853966</a>
x0x0 on: Canada to Scrap IBM Payroll Plan Gone Awry Costing... <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16495504" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16495504</a><p>> Humans are very good at holding lots of exceptions in our heads and, in the absence of clear rules, doing reasonable things. Computers are shit at both of the above.
ry_ry imagines a possible future for the kernel after Linus is gone.<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18281465" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18281465</a><p>Funny and very well written.<p>Edit: pasted a wrong link, fixed the context