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HN comments are underrated
HN comments are terrible . On any topic I’m informed about , the vast majority of comments are pretty clearly wrong . Most of the time, there are zero comments from people who know anything about the topic and the top comment is reasonable sounding but totally incorrect. Additionally, many comments are gratuitously…
- Points
- 733
- HN comments
- 499
- Submissions
- 4
- Cited by
- 21 commenters
Society, Policy & CultureLife, Learning & Writing2016
On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 23, 2016 | HN comments are underrated by ingve | 733 | 359 |
| Jun 4, 2019 | HN: The Good Parts (2016) by quickthrower2 | 144 | 35 |
| May 5, 2021 | HN: The Good Parts (2016) by ra00l | 105 | 82 |
| Aug 21, 2026 | HN: The Good Parts (2016) by adletbalzhanov | 82 | 23 |
Cited in comments
Linked from 26 Hacker News comments by 21 different people, from Nov 2016 to Jun 2026.
Most recent:
- 0xDEAFBEAD · Jun 2, 2026
- alexpotato · Apr 22, 2026
- robocat · Apr 19, 2023
- jppope · Sep 26, 2022
- robocat · Jun 17, 2022
- robocat · Jun 16, 2022
