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Comment by jacquesm | Hacker News Reader

This should be a good starting point:

There are boatloads of good content in there, plenty of which have the potential of changing your perspective on life, tech or just about anything else that is covered.

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I feel like "ask hn" questions are very similar to a large portion of the initial content on quora and the initial communities were somewhat similar. I wonder if there is anything that YC could do to make hacker news better preserve the evergreen content on the site. Sometimes I check out a 2 year old thread and feel like commenting on it but then I realize that boat has already sailed.

Sometime in the last year someone made a comment in a thread on learning/insight that I have wanted to cite more than once -- the comment went something like this:

"When I struggle with something and finally figure it out, I write down the one thing/sentence that I could have told my future self that would have helped me understand it."

I have searched for this comment several times but haven't been able to find it.

Thanks. I've been on this site for a long, long time. I knew there had to be a curated list like this but Google turned up nothing with a cursory search.

I was so looking for that post frantically for the past couple of days but it just kept eluding me. Thanks a lot for posting it.

It makes me wonder how effective a well implemented human powered search engine could be. Its kinda overwhelming just thinking about it.

It's interested when you task reddit with finding something. It's like crowdsourced searching, with a few really resourceful people.

Thanks for sharing, I was searching for something like this. Usually I bookmark links which I like to re-read later on delicious. How often this list is updated ?

I've stopped updating it. It's at least a year stale.

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