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This list seems autogenerated, but manually curated. It's way better than the results you get when visiting the "past" link. Even playing with the phrasing ("Pa

This list seems autogenerated, but manually curated. It's way better than the results you get when visiting the "past" link. Even playing with the phrasing ("Paul Erdős" vs "Erdős") doesn't really help uncover lots of the threads you pulled up here. If you happened to make this using publicly-available tools, I encourage you to someday write up what your technique is. I'm sure a lot of it is simply experience, but people like me might still learn a thing or two from your advice. (If it's using private tools, it'd be wonderful to have them available to the wider community someday. But that's difficult, and delicate, so thanks for doing it manually in the meantime.)

pvg 6y ago
They are all (I think) in the first two pages of search results for plain 'Erdos' at comments>0
- sillysaurusx 6y ago
  Oh, you're right! I didn't know about comments>0. That instantly filtered out so much noise. Thank you. Any tips for filtering out the Ask HNs, and also username searches? https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=Erdos%20comments%3E0&sort=byDate&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... Your query is probably close enough though. It cut the results from ~4 pages to 1.5.
  - sillysaurusx 6y ago
    Aha, the trick is to go into https://hn.algolia.com/settings https://hn.algolia.com/settings and turn off all the checkboxes: - Use the story text for search - Use the author's username for search - Typo-tolerance After that, it gives a lovely one-page list: https://i.imgur.com/14I1dv6.png https://i.imgur.com/14I1dv6.png Wish it was a matter of changing query params, not persistent settings, but tacking "comments>0" onto random searches is awesome. "points>5" is great too: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=feynman%20comments%3E0%20points%3E5&sort=byDate&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... Thanks again!

pvg 6y ago

They are all (I think) in the first two pages of search results for plain 'Erdos' at comments>0

sillysaurusx 6y ago
Oh, you're right! I didn't know about comments>0. That instantly filtered out so much noise. Thank you. Any tips for filtering out the Ask HNs, and also username searches? https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=Erdos%20comments%3E0&sort=byDate&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... Your query is probably close enough though. It cut the results from ~4 pages to 1.5.
- sillysaurusx 6y ago
  Aha, the trick is to go into https://hn.algolia.com/settings https://hn.algolia.com/settings and turn off all the checkboxes: - Use the story text for search - Use the author's username for search - Typo-tolerance After that, it gives a lovely one-page list: https://i.imgur.com/14I1dv6.png https://i.imgur.com/14I1dv6.png Wish it was a matter of changing query params, not persistent settings, but tacking "comments>0" onto random searches is awesome. "points>5" is great too: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=feynman%20comments%3E0%20points%3E5&sort=byDate&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... Thanks again!