Ask HN: What interesting thought did you read on HN but couldn't find later? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What interesting thought did you read on HN but couldn't find later?

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Post by snailmailman » Sun, May 27, 2018, 3:49 PM UTC

Not a "interesting thought" really, but I thought someone posted a link to a site for "un-mangling" text. would fix all the formatting issues like &amp, and other various issues caused by copy/pasting text from place to place.

I forget what I was doing recently but I thought "I should use that site" and couldn't find it anywhere after lots of searching. I should have bookmarked it :-/

Re: Ask HN: What interesting thought did you read on HN but couldn't find later?

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Post by rapfaria » Sun, May 27, 2018, 3:53 PM UTC

Just a reminder to always upvote/favorite what you consider relevant, and you can find it later on your profile, in case you don't use an app like Pocket to consolidate everything.

Re: Ask HN: What interesting thought did you read on HN but couldn't find later?

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Post by p49k » Sun, May 27, 2018, 3:56 PM UTC

An article that provided a strong argument for why you should never stop reading, even if you forget most of what you read. There are a few articles I’ve found via Google on the same subject but they are not the one I saw on HN.

Re: Ask HN: What interesting thought did you read on HN but couldn't find later?

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Post by rahidz2003 » Sun, May 27, 2018, 3:58 PM UTC

There was this blog post about how to form yearly goals, maybe for New Year’s resolutions or something? I remember they were divided into 10-15 categories, dealing with all areas of life (career, health, family, etc.) and had probing but specific questions in each.

Re: Ask HN: What interesting thought did you read on HN but couldn't find later?

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Post by mayankkaizen » Sun, May 27, 2018, 3:58 PM UTC

rapfaria wrote: post #22

Just a reminder to always upvote/favorite what you consider relevant, and you can find it later on your profile, in case you don't use an app like Pocket to consolidate everything.

I use Materialistic app for HN. Saved there many stories. Lost my mobile. Then I realized this app saves stories only locally.

Re: Ask HN: What interesting thought did you read on HN but couldn't find later?

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Post by qrbLPHiKpiux » Sun, May 27, 2018, 4:00 PM UTC

When a metric is targeted, it fails to be a good metric.

Re: Ask HN: What interesting thought did you read on HN but couldn't find later?

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Post by NicoJuicy » Sun, May 27, 2018, 4:01 PM UTC

qop wrote: post #18

bobberkarl wrote: post #16

A blog post about specific advertisement targeting on facebook. Something along the lines of specifically making ads for some identified users.

There was a post the other day about a guy who targeted Reddit's CEO by essentially doxxing him and using geo targeted single shot ad runs with the guys name in big letters. Was that it?

No, there was a better one targeting his roommate:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8330931

Re: Ask HN: What interesting thought did you read on HN but couldn't find later?

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Post by rdeboo » Sun, May 27, 2018, 4:05 PM UTC

p49k wrote: post #23

An article that provided a strong argument for why you should never stop reading, even if you forget most of what you read. There are a few articles I’ve found via Google on the same subject but they are not the one I saw on HN.

Perhaps this essay by Paul Graham?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8753526

Re: Ask HN: What interesting thought did you read on HN but couldn't find later?

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Post by kadenshep » Sun, May 27, 2018, 4:06 PM UTC

rdeboo wrote: post #28

p49k wrote: post #23

An article that provided a strong argument for why you should never stop reading, even if you forget most of what you read. There are a few articles I’ve found via Google on the same subject but they are not the one I saw on HN.

Perhaps this essay by Paul Graham? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8753526

The one set of material you probably shouldn't read.

Re: Ask HN: What interesting thought did you read on HN but couldn't find later?

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Post by pimlottc » Sun, May 27, 2018, 4:07 PM UTC

There was a good quote about commercial interests becoming entrenched, something about once a business gets accustom to making a profit in some way it stars to think of it as a right and argues in that fashion to defend it.