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I know it seems to be part of HN culture to make these lists, but not sure why. There's a "past" link with every story that provide a comprehensive search for a

• dredmorbius 5y ago
  Immediacy and curation have value. Note that dang will post these as well. He's got an automated tool to generate the lists, which ... would be nice to share if it's shareable. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Adang%20previous%20discussion&sort=byPopularity&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
  • scoot 5y ago
    I love that people think that @dangbot is a person. (Yes, of course there's a person behind the bot...)
    • dredmorbius 5y ago
      If he's a bot, he's a good email conversationalist. (I email HN fairly regularly, mostly brief suggestions/fixes/issues on posts or threads, occasionally longer.) A bit on dang's link tool here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28436784 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28436784 (that links to further discussion). This describes the tool: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26158300 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26158300 And on the why: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22638065 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22638065 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28250683 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28250683