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

#31
There was a thread about sole founders who have experienced success. Notably, there was a someone who developed a resume software and was able to sell his company to the German government (if my memory serves right).

Anyways, as the sole founder of a resume company, I found the story inspirational, yet I was never able to find the thread again.

related, my company - https://rezi.io

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

#34

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 :-/

Was it a mojibake (text encoding) fixer?

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

#35
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.

On a thread about stories you found interesting but lost, a story about reading even if you forget. How very meta

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

#36

There was a thread about sole founders who have experienced success. Notably, there was a someone who developed a resume software and was able to sell his company to the German government (if my memory serves right). Anyways, as the sole founder of a resume company, I found the story inspirational, yet I was never able to find the thread again. related, my company - https://rezi.io

Maybe this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12073667

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

#37

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 :-/

Maybe not what you remember, but maybe this helps? https://github.com/LuminosoInsight/python-ftfy/blob/master/R...

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

#38

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.

Maybe this?

http://yearcompass.com

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

#39

An article about some species of octopuses that have a relatively high IQ, but since the parents die before their offspring comes to life, every generation have to relearn everything from scratch. IIRC, the lack of inter-generational communication deprived this species from developing to the level its IQ permits. I wish I can find that piece again!

Is it this one? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13354852#13363510

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

#40
Someone mentioned a scifi short story with link to online version that I followed & read. The story was about a uploaded-human AI-spaceship that for a time worked as a asteroid miner. After a single overmind takes over 1st the inner planets, then the whole solar system, the protagonist to flee to insterstellar space, but is pursued by an overmind ship.

Been trying to find the story/title/author since, with no success.

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