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Top comments
The OP says "The most favorited articles by the top 10k most active Hacker News members." How was "most active" defined? (Edit: oh I see - the users who post the most comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24352688). It's an interesting list, and it never occurred to me that by counting the top favorites of different subsets of users you might get quite different interesting lists. I got curious about what the global most-favorited would be. Here are the top 50. The first column…
No clue if I'm typical, but I almost never use the favorites feature. I see I did twice last year, and that was ten years after I joined.
This has been posted before but it was a while ago and the articles are very interesting still.
When was the "favorite" feature introduced? I feel like it was only a few years ago..
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.
HN stats
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 1417
- Total comments
- 283
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-09-02 | Most-favorited Hacker News postsFirst breakout · Best thread | tlarkworthy | 1266 | 259 |
| 2022-10-23 | Most-favorited Hacker News posts of all time | metadat | 3 | 2 |
| 2023-07-29 | Most-Favorited Hacker News Posts | explosion-s | 5 | 1 |
| 2023-12-29 | Most favorited articles by the top 10k most active HN members (2020)Latest 20+ point return | aragonite | 143 | 21 |