What is the Mona Lisa of Hacker News?

thelibrarian 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Colin Percival (cperciva), upon being dismissed due to never having won a prestigious mathematical award such as a Putnam fellowship, revealing that he had in fact won a Putnam fellowship in 1999.

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argee 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Based on TFA, nothing. Since no has quoted anything as such. So, allow me.

This [0] is the Mona Lisa of Hacker News. (Most favorited post circa 2020, though now that would likely be something else.)

[0] https://jgthms.com/web-design-in-4-minutes/

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zem 27 minutes ago | parent [-]

that's a lovely post, and I missed it when it came out, so thanks for that! but based on the logic in TFA I think an admin would have to make the claim for it to count.

	▲	argee 11 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		TFA has curator quotes, the users are largely the curators of HN, so it should work! I can't imagine the admins ever saying anything like that.

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fooker 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Has to be the dropbox comment

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ErroneousBosh an hour ago | parent [-]

What was the dropbox comment?

	▲	nom 32 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

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bitwize 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The guy who dismissed Dropbox.

	▲	wiether 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yes!