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There are literally hundreds of brilliant articles in HNs history. Learn to mine them for yourself and there's treasure to be found. Don't rely on other peopl
by RiderOfGiraffes 16y ago
There are literally hundreds of brilliant articles in HNs history. Learn to mine them for yourself and there's treasure to be found.
Don't rely on other people to do your work, in this case learning for yourself is very useful. After all:
"Give a man a match and he's warm for a moment,
set him on fire and he's warm for the rest of
his life."
- Natsu 16y agoThat's a very good point. Speaking of which, thank you for the link to the old one. The comments there were very informative.
- RiderOfGiraffes 16y agoYou're welcome.
- Natsu 16y agoSpeaking of which, I've seen you pull out links to dupes probably dozens of times. I assume you're taking your own advice and have a means of mining old HN articles? I have a pretty good memory, but I don't think I would've caught all of those without some computerized help. You also gave me the idea that maybe there should be an application to trawl through old HN articles looking for good ones (probably excluding old hiring threads and the like), but it's such a simple idea that I'm assuming that someone has already built essentially that and I don't know about it. SearchYC's top feature is close, but not quite what I have in mind. Interestingly, I noticed that one of the top comments ever according to SearchYC is from btilly commenting on the original article. The other top comment makes me wish that btilly had taught math at my university.
- RiderOfGiraffes 16y agoI usually recognise things, and then use SearchYC for them. I do also have an interest in the old, good articles, and I'm working on a system to make them more readily available, accessible, browsable and discoverable. If anything comes of it I'll certainly announce it here, if I'm still here.