Ask HN: favorite HN posts?

12 points·snitko··4 comments

I read HN in GoogleReader, so I often save some of the posts to the Starred Items. I wonder if you do the same. Please share some of your links.

P.S. I'm also looking for a HN post with a link to a huge multi-pages document describing how airlines set prices and handle tickets. It was very interesting and I'd like to re-read it, but I can't find it. Any help would be very much appreciated.

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Some of the posts saved to my starred items:

1. Ask HN: Please name two of your most favorite books - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=875686

2. Talking to God - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1122706

3. The case of the 500-mile email - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1293652

4. Ask HN: I really don't understand node.js, could someone explain it to me? - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1447235

5. No One Knows What the F* They're Doing (or "The 3 Types of Knowledge") - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1121775

plenty of gems here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/best

Personal favorite is RiderOfGiraffes series on coding up a simple function.

The thing with those is, as you go back you'll notice a fair few that aren't nearly as interesting now, they were just topical/the right thing at the right time. Many of the truly great articles I've read on HN scored well, but not that well.

And plenty of tripe scored way more than it should. But the 'best' page is definitely a page worth visiting when you're looking for good stuff.

some stuff I really liked:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1373046

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1362423

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1360065

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1355977

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