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Ask HN: Whats your favorite HN thread from 2015?

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"My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10486476

Which maybe was not on the lines OP intended. :)

I missed that one. I had a similar issue, but marked all the emails as spam and stopped seeing them in my inbox.

Alex! Welcome back!

Fun fact: I actually received an email a month later from Michael to join Livecoding.tv.

I had a good laugh.

This is beautiful for all the wrong reasons.

This makes me wish that HN merely collapsed flagged comments rather than making them unavailable to read.

You can see them if you have showdead enabled in your profile.

The guy who was talking about his "spouse firewall" in the facebook thread was pretty great. Basically he just doesn't have facebook and his spouse is the filter, she tells him all the important stuff. It was an excellent idea! :D

here's the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10703194

Missed that thread but it's great. I often refer to my wife as my "Facebook Ambassador" as she serves a similar role in our household.

Coincidentally, I checked my bookmarks for HN threads and found that the top comment on one of the few I saved was also by jerf, the Facebook firewall guy. Here he is on "Move Fast and Break Things" talking about drop-in replacements.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10739129

This is one of my own ASK HN threads but I was really happy with the discussion in there.

Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9799007

It gave me so much food for thought and ended up with a fairly popular essay http://000fff.org/the-problem-with-problems/

Good essay. I'd like to point out, historically in many parts of the world the "age problem" was solved by having three generations living in one house, whereas today, frequently the elderly live separately or in a nursing home.

I feel the generation immediately above me, i.e. my parents and their siblings, encourage me to keep a good job, find a career, save up, buy stocks and property, and "work my way up".

It's my grandparents who is telling me I should forget about all these things and do what I really want to do.

I discovered a moderately old video from CloudFlare hiding in there, and had a rather big TIL moment.

It's one thing to read "LuaJIT is one of the fastest dynamic languages" etc blah blah on http://luajit.org/luajit.html ...

...it's quite another to learn that EVERY SINGLE CLOUDFLARE REQUEST - all 4 million/sec of them - goes through a LuaJIT-based attack detection system.

Oh.

Video: http://youtu.be/LA-gNoxSLCE (from http://www.thedotpost.com/2015/06/john-graham-cumming-i-got-...)

Found in the linked thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9800149

"How to be a good technical leader" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10395046

The points in this thread helped me better understand team interaction. Especially: A leader is never too busy to listen to a teammate.

"How do I stop comparing myself to others" : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10523788

@cperciva's answer was sublime IMHO for multiple reasons.

Thanks for bringing this up - somehow I missed this thread. Not tech related, but beautiful and wise. Forwarding it to my kids right now.

For the amount of time I spend on here, it's a shame I can't remember any "life enhancing" threads that would be worth mentioning.

"Presumption of stupidity": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10034883

Really enjoyed both the article and the discussion on that one.

"Open source software for developing world hospitals " https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10675275

I've been wandering around looking for a project I can contribute to and make a difference. This is small enough where I can make a contribution but big enough so that I'm not "in charge", plus the scaffolding has been already set up. My 2016 resolution is to hone my Javascipt & git skills and contribute to something meaningful. I'm using my break to get up to speed on Ember and get ready to dive in.

I'm not quite sure, but the first one that springs to mind was "How art became irrelevant" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10760665). While I obviously like HN for all the techies that meet here, I also enjoy it when, once in a while, we have a discussion about something completely different. Like art :-)

WebAssembly announce:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9732827

"In Memoriam: Ian Murdock (docker.com)" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10813524

Some pretty healthy discussions and consolidated information which I can't find elsewhere.

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