Most cited comments
on Hacker News
About the counts
Each known account counts once per comment, excluding the author’s own links and links within the original discussion.
Comments with 10+ accounts in the archive through 23 August 2026. Flagged, removed, or retracted comments are excluded, checked on 2 October 2026. This is an archive ranking, not a complete live HN census; text comes from the saved cache, with two admin comments retrieved from HN on 2 October 2026.
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