Ask HN: What are your favourite Hacker News comments?
A Hacker News user asks the community to share their favorite comments and quotes from the platform, inspired by a similar discussion on Lobsters.
Background
- Hacker News (HN) is a massive tech-oriented community and link-aggregator run by Y Combinator (the Silicon Valley startup accelerator). It is one of the most influential forums in the English-speaking tech world, known for high-quality, often expert-level discussion in its comment sections.
- A "Lobsters" comment refers to Lobste.rs, a smaller, invite-only tech link-aggregator that is a frequent sibling or rival to HN — this Ask HN was inspired by a parallel thread on that site.
- "Ask HN" is a post type where a user poses a question directly to the community rather than sharing a link.
- This thread is essentially a crowd-sourced curation of the community's own greatest hits: memorable, insightful, or witty comments from HN's long history that readers feel are worth preserving.