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This is great, thanks for putting in the time to put this together! Side note: Anybody know of tools that auto-compile lists like this? I'm sure it's not perfe

This is great, thanks for putting in the time to put this together! Side note: Anybody know of tools that auto-compile lists like this? I'm sure it's not perfect, but these sorts of reviews really add value to the current conversation.

nitrogen 6y ago
Speculating: since dang is HN's main moderator, there might be some tools built into either HN or HN search that help with those types of lists, possibly related to dupe detection.
- dang 6y ago
  Yes - some explanation at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26245003 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26245003 and the link back from there. Edit: I still want to make this a community/collaborative effort. As HN's archive grows it gets richer, so this gets increasingly worth doing over time. The recent changes are a small step in that direction. Edit 2: maybe someday it could be integrated somehow with the criminally neglected Usenet archive and go all the way back.
  - mportela 6y ago
    Usenet archives ftw!
kryogen1c 6y ago
well! allow me to share a feature i discovered a few days ago after reading for years. when you browse via the web (unsure which apps support this feature), clicking the title - in this case, Crystal 1.0 – does what you expect and takes you to the article. in tinier font next to the title - in this case, (crystal-lang.org) - is a link that shows all the previous HN submissions for that website, which happens to be pretty similar to what dang posted. this wont work for platforms like medium or reuters, but is a big head start for a single-issue website like this.
- sanxiyn 6y ago
  HN actually special cases medium so that this works. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26535357 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26535357 for an example.
- ksec 6y ago
  WHAT! I have been on HN for over a decade and I didn't know this. Thank You.
steveklabnik 6y ago
Kind of hilariously, years ago we had a user that would do this. It was sort of controversial for reasons I don’t really remember; I always enjoyed it. They eventually stopped posting.

nitrogen 6y ago

Speculating: since dang is HN's main moderator, there might be some tools built into either HN or HN search that help with those types of lists, possibly related to dupe detection.

dang 6y ago
Yes - some explanation at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26245003 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26245003 and the link back from there. Edit: I still want to make this a community/collaborative effort. As HN's archive grows it gets richer, so this gets increasingly worth doing over time. The recent changes are a small step in that direction. Edit 2: maybe someday it could be integrated somehow with the criminally neglected Usenet archive and go all the way back.
- mportela 6y ago
  Usenet archives ftw!

kryogen1c 6y ago

well! allow me to share a feature i discovered a few days ago after reading for years. when you browse via the web (unsure which apps support this feature), clicking the title - in this case, Crystal 1.0 – does what you expect and takes you to the article. in tinier font next to the title - in this case, (crystal-lang.org) - is a link that shows all the previous HN submissions for that website, which happens to be pretty similar to what dang posted. this wont work for platforms like medium or reuters, but is a big head start for a single-issue website like this.

sanxiyn 6y ago
HN actually special cases medium so that this works. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26535357 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26535357 for an example.
ksec 6y ago
WHAT! I have been on HN for over a decade and I didn't know this. Thank You.

steveklabnik 6y ago

Kind of hilariously, years ago we had a user that would do this. It was sort of controversial for reasons I don’t really remember; I always enjoyed it. They eventually stopped posting.