Ask HN: What are some interesting 'HN profile, about me' texts?
2 years ago
@dang will send you into a philosophical rabbit hole.
@tptacek reads the Gatsby.
@jacquesm is inviting you to take his angel money.
@patio11 will quickly dissolve imposter syndrome of emailing him for advice.
Most of these were from https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders though.
I am interested in more obscure ones.
Always enjoyed Daniel Cussen's bio:
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=daniel-cussen
Looks like he's shadowbanned.
So what? Cussen is a member of the HN population I'd refer to as "colorful characters". Various combinations of coherent, incoherent, and non-traditional (offensive).
FWIW, my profile is one of the longer ones. I occasionally prune some garbage but as I discover things I like, I keep adding, adding, adding. I'm not sure what the upper bounds is on max length.
I also like toomuchtodo's profile: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=toomuchtodo
The worst profiles are those with negative and/or paranoid shit in them; there are a disappointingly high number of them.
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