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I'm not disagreeing, but I'm not necessarily convinced there's real value "for future generations". I love nostalgia, but it seems pretty useless beyond the ent

• nxobject 2y ago
  I think history is worth mining for future ideas for producitvity software – especially when we finish mining everything LLMs and RAG can do, we might go back to past experiments in information retrieval. We might know the history now that we're reading this thread... but who's to say that a developer in 2030 who's never read HN has?
• inatreecrown2 2y ago
  it must be recorded, otherwise it will seem like magic
• mongol 2y ago
  This is no different to me than other historical artifacts. Old furniture, cars, clothes, books and so on tell a lot about the time they were created, and the people that lived during those times. It is not just about nostalgia. It is about knowing about the past. History and archeology are scientific disciplines where this is crucial.
  • pbhjpbhj 2y ago
    Agreed on the first sentence... I like history too (now I'm middle-aged). I see some benefit, but mostly that seems to be entertainment too. One perhaps can't separate the useful bits from the other bits. Like, those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it. But, those who do are mostly doomed to watch from the sidelines as other people repeat it. And even the things that are possibly obviously bad ideas without historical analogues get done...