Most popular links in Hacker News comments, 2006–2015
It is strongly worth nothing that there has been a shift in comment sentiment/quality over the years. In early HN, comments were more hostile and would definitely be killed by the modern mod team. (it's where the HN stereotypes originated)See my old list of the Top Comments for each month of HN since 2006 and note the difference between the old comments and recent comments: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZwonVX_KlDYhuhPnAAnV...At the least, there is no situation nowadays on HN where commenting with http://xkcd.com/386/ would be considered appropriate.