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Comment by owenversteeg | Hacker News Reader

I personally find the comments far more interesting than the stories. Does anyone know some HN users with interesting favorited comments?

If anyone thinks the list of posts here is very heavy on programming things, feel free to browse my favorited comments. I have quite the mix of all topics. The usual disclaimer applies - these are just my HN favorites, I do not endorse them. Many favorited comments are completely wrong, they are not medical, legal or financial advice, I am not licensed to sell insurance etc etc.

https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=owenversteeg&comme...

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Dan Luu has a nice curated list: https://danluu.com/hn-comments/

https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=heymijo&p=2&commen...

I favorite comments often. I like to scan back through. I generate a lot of ideas and make a lot of connections doing so.

Same caveats apply to my favorites as yours.

Ditto! I use it for a) things that are worth researching later and b) unusually well-made points and explanations.

https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=SilasX&comments=t

You have a nice list, thank you! Hopefully other people post theirs as well, I'm very curious what people favorite.

Is it possible to favorite a comment on HN?

Yes, click the timestamp on the comment and you'll see the full range of actions.

Yes, click the timestamp on the comment and you'll see the full range of actions.

Very interesting, after the very active recent discussion about discoverability in user interfaces.

It's like HN hired someone from the iOS design team to come up with the notion of "timestamp" = "favorite."

Another way to look at it is that "timestamp" = "permalink", which is a fairly common pattern (I'm not trying to imply that it is intuitive, just that it is common). Once you are at the permalink you have a range of options available to you.

Same, as a permalink. I'll bookmark the permalink then run it through archive.org using a simple addons of mine, in case HN goes down I will have an archive backup.

If it were iOS design, the favorite button would only appear when you rotated your device.

Putting more stuff under the permalink page linked from a timestamp is a web tradition that's older than HN. I don't know if it's good, but I do notice when I can't click a timestamp. Even Twitter and Facebook abide it.

I didn't know that. This was very helpful. Been here for a while too (a few years passive read prior to making an account).

My god, after a decade. Thank you.

Ah, nice. Thanks.

Yes. I just discovered that I have done it by mistake, twice during the past six years. I'll blame glitches on the trackpad on my previous laptop. I wasn't even aware of the feature.

Only once you click a comment's date to access the permalink.

Completely agree, I almost always screen comments before I get to the article.

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