I spend a lot of time reading Hacker News each day trying to learn as much as I can about startups.<p>However, one of the problems that I have is I find it hard to know what advice to listen too. There are so many opinions and comments and it can be very difficult to know if the author actually knows what they are talking about.<p>So my question is, who are the best people to listen to on Hacker News? I’m not necessarily looking for the people with the highest karma, I’m looking for the people who practice what they preach, people who run successful startups and who have real world evidence to back up their claims.
Besides people associated with YC like pg, rtm, jl, paul etc, a good litmus test is often simply age of account and the person's background from their profile. People I know who have good backgrounds and make consistently good comments from their experience for years now are usually all I read anymore, since there are so many comments on HN now.