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Subscriber growth
HN Best Comments has 4,321 subscribers. It gained 157 subscribers in the last 30 days (3.8%). A typical post is seen by about 744 people within a day, an engagement rate of 17.2%.
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| 11 Nov | 4,321 | +8 | 27 | 541 |
| 10 Nov | 4,313 | +16 | 13 | 723 |
| 9 Nov | 4,297 | +22 | 28 | 761 |
| 8 Nov | 4,275 | +111 | 22 | 594 |
| 8 Oct | 4,164 | – | 0 | – |
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Average views at each age, posts of the last 30 days.
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When it posts
Times in UTC. 100 posts in 90 days.
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Re: Nvidia is preparing to oust Jensen Huang His behavior demonstrates poor judgement. Demonstrating poor judgement is the best reason to fire an executive. More companies should do it. BugsJustFindMe, 11 hours ago
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Re: Nvidia is preparing to oust Jensen Huang It's really interesting to me how unaggressive Jensen has been vs. his peers about tighting up control over his company (even during the recent years when he had huge leverage): - His board setup is ... odd. He isn't Chairman of the Board (a role over 50% of Fortune 100 CEOs apparently hold). He seems to be responsible for Nvidia having a wierdly more egalitarian structure (all directors including him, are equal, with a designated lead independent director) - His compensation (~$35M, primarily stock) is ... not up there with other tech CEOs - He doesn't seem to have ever pushed for super-voting rights (he only has like ~3.5% of the company), b...
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Re: Nvidia is preparing to oust Jensen Huang I recently recalled Nvidia's rather strange reaction to the Gamers Nexus investigation into GPU smuggling [0]. Found it somewhat strange at the time how incredibly agitated the reaction seemed to have been, given Nvidia could sell the same GPUs for the same price essentially instantly without the Chinese market. Their reaction wasn't merely a denial, dismissal or even silence, but very irrationally sounding for a company of their size and standing. Why not just sell to not-sanctioned entities, ensure compliance to the best of your abilities and otherwise keep your head down? Again, wasn't like they struggled to find buyers for their chips. Cons...
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Re: United Airlines bans AI agents from booking flights on behalf of travelers Tangent: it was always odd to me that "booking a [flight|hotel|concert tickets]" is the canonical example of a task that can be automated by an agent. These are tasks that are: - already streamlined (spend 2min on Google flights, seatgeek, etc...); we aren't stuck with early web UX and latency - I want to have 100% control of the outcome or would have to write a long list of preferences and rules (middle seats, layovers, etc...) to feel good about trusting automation - require making a large payment. the agent is not getting free reign to use my cc - give me some personal satisfaction and enjoyment - its deli...
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Re: Nvidia is preparing to oust Jensen Huang Nuanced opinions 1) The fact that he cheated on his wife isn't particularly relevant, other than the lack of a prenup meaning she owns half his stock (4% of the company). 2) The fact that he slept with a subordinate shows bad judgment, but isn't a huge deal (although improper and opens up potential quid-pro-quo lawsuits) 3) The fact that he slept with a Chinese spy is a huge deal. 4) The fact that there are allegations that he was aware that they were selling illegally to China is a huge deal. 5) Even though those export control were arguably bad, the law must be respected and the being seen ignoring the law would have a chilling effect on a...
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Re: United Airlines bans AI agents from booking flights on behalf of travelers When a company like Delta is on record using AI to set each individual shopper's price as high as possible [1], there's no longer any illusion about having a fair exchange of value, or an idea about who's behaving badly or not. [1] https://mashable.com/article/airlines-set-prices-artificial-... awongh, 4 hours ago
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Re: Nvidia is preparing to oust Jensen Huang Seems like much more sane governance for a publicly-traded company. Honestly this arrangement (total comp aside) is how it should be for all these companies. When Facebook went public the dual class structure (and Zuck retaining voting control) was a big point of contention. HolyLampshade, 3 hours ago
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Re: United Airlines bans AI agents from booking flights on behalf of travelers I don’t think it’s hard to understand why an airline would get tired of getting more refund requests and customer service escalations for refusal of same according to agreed upon terms by entitled jerks who don’t want to accept the consequences of the decisions their ShitClaw made on their behalf. Sure, the airline may not notice when it happens but it can cut those processes short when they have a full ban. jeremyjh, 3 hours ago
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Re: A false smoke alarm almost drowned Jane Street's only NYC datacenter The article reminds me of when Hurricane Sandy took out a bunch of New York DCs with 3+ feet of water and people were carrying diesel up stairs to keep generators running. “The superhuman folks at the data center are hauling 55 gallon drums of diesel fuel up 17 flights of stairs. Assuming they're able to sustain a rate of transfer that exceeds the rate of consumption, the data center should run until electricity is restored. The latest estimate from Con Edison for lower Manhattan is 4 days. (The New York Stock Exchange will be open tomorrow, also running on generator power.)” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4720...
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Re: United Airlines bans AI agents from booking flights on behalf of travelers How do they plan on stopping me from using Claude code with the Claude in chrome plugin, or some other computer use agent? At this point it feels like I have an adversarial relationship with many merchants I use online. I wish the simple “you have a product, I have money” relationship was possible. I don’t want to take part in your giant human behavior optimization problem. You have a product and I have money why does it have to be more complicated than that? Realistically though I know that’s not happening. I will continue to access online merchants in the way I prefer and will do my best to avoid detection or...
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Re: Is Opus 5.5 nerfed? Thinking patterns changed on November 3 The local Qwen 3.8 27B might not be anywhere near as smart as Claude's models but I never wake up one morning and wonder if I am part of some test model to see if I will accept something somewhat less capable or not trained as well in the tools I am using day to day. Its also not suddenly going to start refusing to test the security of my system or scanning the code for vulnerabilities or continuing to back engineer that old binary the company lost its code for years ago. It is something I also appreciate with some of the other labs like deepseek who publish the checkpoint they are running on and still sell you the old one for...
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Re: How I'm fighting the AI brain fry I feel like I’m starting to have my own psychosis where if I read a blog article and I get a whiff of AI smell my brain turns off and I can’t read anymore. I’m not blaming the author maybe this is their original idea and its edited by AI but I physically can’t keep reading it. AI blindness or something. pech0rin, 21 hours ago
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Re: Apple is killing its Support Community forum next week I feel bad for the people who dedicated significant time to helping others there. I just pulled up a random page and there are users with tens of thousands of answers and profiles professing their love of all things Apple. Suddenly going read-only with no warning and killing it shortly after just seems like such a cold and abrupt way to end what was clearly some people's hobby and point of pride. I hope they at least do something to privately acknowledge the most helpful users beyond the boilerplate message. Jordan-117, 4 hours ago
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Re: Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 Damn people were right about 5.5 being nerfed in preparation for a version release. This is not at all a good look. - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50422069 skeledrew, 34 minutes ago
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Re: Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 I’ve had a chance to use fable 5.2. Some observations: - Anthropic is finally well balanced across models. Meaning: Opus 5.5 is so good that I do not feel Fable FOMO as I did when it was Fable 5/5.1 vs Opus 4.8/5. And Sonnet 5.5 sometimes makes me forget about Opus. - Fable is good, but you really have to push the ambition of your prompt in order to see proper separation from Opus 5.5. I personally have a hard time telling the difference between Fable 5.2 and Opus 5.5 for ordinary coding tasks. - It’s way faster and more reliable: one of the worst things about fable 5.1 was how slow it was an, on top of that, how frequently it would suffer from max out...
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Re: Foldable Flight: The Best Paper Airplanes Scrolled down the page, saw this "Very Easy" 1 minute plane https://www.foldableflight.com/planes/mystic Started watching the video not planning on actually making it, saw that it is done with A4 paper and grabbed a random sheet at my desk to follow along. The pocket felt like a nice "a-ha!" moment. As someone who only knew the "naive" way to make paper airplanes from A4 paper, this is the best performing and prettiest paper airplane I've made in my life! It almost feels like it's not real how smoothly it stays straight in the air compared to all my paper airplanes in childhood. Edit: Tried making the flapping wings AeroDactyl but it didn't w...
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Re: Nvidia Board of Directors Is Investigating Jensen Huang The title on this is just extremely misleading. Nvidia is doing an investigation of Jensen Huang being targeted in an intelligence operation; ie, an investigation of something that happened to him. The title implies that Jensen Huang is the target of Nvidia's investigation. nrmitchi, 1 hour ago
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Re: Amazon saves millions by replacing Sonnet 4.6 with Strands Decider About six years ago we built a ticket classification/routing model and pipeline [1]. The initial version was trained using SVMs, it took a couple of minutes to train, and the ticket classification was just a few milliseconds. It's so fascinating to watch how the field moved over to LLMs, and then back to faster/cheaper classifiers again. [1] "Linnaeus: A highly reusable and adaptable ML based log classification pipeline", https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.06927 NOTE: the work was actually accepted at the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) in 2021. armcat, 4 hours ago
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Re: Humans will never again create a project like Wikipedia Many longtime OSM mappers have sensed that there has been some decline in interest and a risk to the long-term future of the project as a truly amateur-enthusiast phenomenon. Causes include: younger generations raised on corporate platforms and their phone apps are less aware of non-corporate alternatives, and might even be suspicious of libre and altruistic movements (this is a concern in Free Software circles, too); as the map got filled in, there were fewer obvious blanks that struck a total newbie as a place he/she could contribute; corporations got onboard both as OSM users and stakeholders, and then some idealistic anti-capit...
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Re: Fable 5.2 one-shotted my nephew's dream game Growing up, games were such a scarce commodity that you'd really suck all the marrow out and spend hours beating your best times, looking for Easter eggs, or messing with custom maps and mods. There was a whole genre of gameplay around just exploiting physics bugs to jump a bit further. The other night I carelessly made an infinite runner game while watching TV and the feeling of sheer abundance quickly faded into a bit of depression. Without scarcity, nothing is really valuable. siliconc0w, 6 hours ago
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Questions about HN Best Comments
How many subscribers does HN Best Comments have?
HN Best Comments (@hn_best_comments) has 4,321 subscribers as of November 12, 2026.
Is HN Best Comments growing?
Yes. It gained 157 subscribers in the last 30 days (3.8%).
How many people see a post on HN Best Comments?
A typical post gets about 740 views within 24 hours, roughly 17% of its subscribers (the ERR).
What is HN Best Comments about?
It is listed in News & Media, and posts mostly in English. The channel describes itself as: “Comments from https://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments Source code: https://github.com/border-radius/hn-best-comments”
Where does HN Best Comments rank?
By subscribers it is #364 in News & Media, #3,608 among English channels, #4,176 worldwide.
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