I agree that this type of compendium/synthesis is useful. I was amused to open this thread and see comments focused on visual programming rather than the meta-a

I agree that this type of compendium/synthesis is useful. I was amused to open this thread and see comments focused on visual programming rather than the meta-aspect. As for what HN could be mined for, a big topic is software languages. There are ways to subdivide that: by language, by optimization aspect (e.g., comparative performance). Geographic topics like cost of living and quality of life. Remote work pros and cons. Another way of identifying topics worth mining would be identify posts where @dang provides a link to previous posts and those previous posts have a sufficient number of comments.