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by turtleyacht 1133 days ago
I think /highlights just shows the top upvoted, parent-level comment per thread. Do you observe that too?

It may be coincidence that PII just happens to be in there. Folks love a good yarn, and establishing context helps.

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> I think /highlights just shows the top upvoted, parent-level comment per thread. Do you observe that too?

No I don't observe that; it's manually compiled by the moderator whose username is dang. He figures it'll be useful for something someday. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34668249

It sounds like https://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments is more like what you had in mind. That one is listed on the list of lists which for some reason doesn't include the highlights list. https://news.ycombinator.com/lists

> It may be coincidence that PII just happens to be in there. Folks love a good yarn, and establishing context helps.

Sure, I think this was definitely true at least before 2018 when they stopped publishing it as periodical digests. After that, not so much.

Ohh. /bestcomments must be what I'm thinking of.

Thank-you for those other links too.