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lhnz on April 13, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Another Way to View the "Decline" of HN

I think an interesting experiment would be to let people pick the top-five most useful posts in this thread. Then consider that to them the rest is noise, do the top-five posts represent the top-five that you would yourself have picked?

For the record (and in no particular order):

1. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2440812

2. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2441254

3. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2440990

4. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2441004

5. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2440967

vessenes on April 13, 2011 [–]

I like 1-4. I consider Jed to be trolling in this thread, so I'd skip 5. Or perhaps I just disagree strongly enough with his overall perspective that we should let things degrade that I don't think it's worth engaging.

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