Cities and Ambition
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2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
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HN comment orderLiving for a few years in the Bay Area, I didn't really end up with the same impression, though that could be my fault. My biggest impression was that the Bay Area wants to be extremely wealthy, but feels slightly inadequate about it. There was a constant palpable rivalry with both NYC and Southern California, a rivalry that was mostly one-directional. And on the Peninsula, in particular, there was a strangely obvious class structure. In particular the startup scene around…
I think the biggest shift in deciding where to live is happening "online" rather than "offline". I am an online nomad. I never lived and never will live in MySpace. I do not like the MySpacians message (Hey lets try to see who has more friends and hookups). I sometimes spend time at Facebook. I lived there for a little while until I realized I am not so much into keeping in touch and I had no friends in the…
You might think that if you had enough strength of mind to do great things, you'd be able to transcend your environment. Where you live should make at most a couple percent difference. This is exactly what I thought out of college. "I'm a product engineer! I can work from anywhere. I'm going to move back to my hometown and turn the rust belt economy around with a billion dollar startup!" As it turns out, I didn't have the talent…
Dupe. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=201373
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 3
- Total points
- 454
- Total comments
- 494
100+ points or 50+ comments
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008-05-27 | Cities and AmbitionFirst breakout | mqt | 156 | 306 |
| 2008-05-31 | Cities | tachim | 3 | 2 |
| 2011-04-01 | Cities and Ambition [2008] | robg | 2 | 0 |
| 2011-08-09 | Cities and Ambition (2008) | revorad | 1 | 1 |
| 2014-01-19 | Cities and Ambition (2008)Hall induction · Best thread | joelrunyon | 185 | 124 |
| 2016-02-18 | Cities and Ambition: The Concentrated Nature of Ability | Jasamba | 2 | 0 |
| 2017-08-29 | Cities and Ambition [2008] | xkr | 1 | 1 |
| 2018-02-26 | Cities and Ambition (2008)Latest 20+ point return | dluan | 93 | 58 |
| 2019-05-28 | Cities and Ambition | heelhook | 1 | 0 |
| 2019-06-01 | Cities and Ambition (2008) | simonebrunozzi | 1 | 0 |
| 2020-08-02 | Cities and Ambition (2008) | jules-jules | 1 | 0 |
| 2020-10-20 | Cities and Ambition (2008) | kchhina | 1 | 0 |
| 2020-12-05 | Cities and Ambition (Pg 2008) | chucknthem | 1 | 1 |
| 2021-02-10 | Cities and Ambition (2008) | david_allison | 1 | 1 |
| 2021-11-09 | Cities and Ambition | vavooom | 2 | 0 |
| 2022-11-13 | Cities | jv_dh | 3 | 0 |