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I often find my self searching through old HN comments for all kinds of things. Just off the top of my head I've searched for comments on: Redis, ZFS, Raft, SQS
by oskarth 10y ago
I often find my self searching through old HN comments for all kinds of things. Just off the top of my head I've searched for comments on: Redis, ZFS, Raft, SQS, ZMQ, message queue, RDS, connection pools, ECS in the last few days. I've learned quite a lot of things from reading comments by people with way more experience in these matters than I have. And that's probably less than half of my searches. A google search might give me some good stuff, and Stack Exchange too, but HN comments are indeed underrated.
- akkartik 10y agoIndeed. Searching on https://hn.algolia.com https://hn.algolia.com is an integral part of my workflow. When I read an article I often want to see: a) What did people say about it on HN? Because the comments there are often superior to the comments on the site itself. If there are multiple threads on it separated by years, it's often interesting to read them all and reflect on how opinions of reasonable people have drifted over time. b) Did I upvote any of the threads? (i.e. Have I read this before?) Did I, perchance, leave a comment? Often this process adds a few more favorites to my list (https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=akkartik&comments=t https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=akkartik&comments=...), which is also growing to be an integral part of my workflow.