What does HackerNews think of lists?

A Glitch in the SEO Matrix | Jul 2023

Lists/"awesome lists" and lists of lists are great.

What is the web revival? | May 2022

the closest thing i found is .. github.

You even have a "definitive list of lists (of lists)" https://github.com/jnv/lists

You can find lots of foo by searching for "list of foo" on github search. https://github.com/search?q=list+of+anything

.. and you can make your own free presence with github pages, just like on geocities! https://docs.github.com/en/pages/quickstart

(now where do you find those 'under construction' giffies? :-)

   /* old things never die, they just get pushed to some free github repo. Maybe there is some git server up there in the sky, that will take care of us when we die :-( (figuratively speaking)  */

Google Search Is Dying | Feb 2022

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>What I'm having a heck of a time finding is technical content; long-form programming tutorials, deep dives into academic concepts

github search is good for that. search for 'list of awesome anytopic'/'curated list of anytopic'/'list of anytopic' and you might find a repository with a curated lists of links on anytopic. (search box on the main page of github)

You even have the 'The definitive list of lists (of lists)' https://github.com/jnv/lists

You might also want to check my side project: I have a search tool / catalog of duckduckgo !bang operators, i am hoping that it allows for better discoverability of specialized search engines.

https://mosermichael.github.io/duckduckbang/html/main.html - (best viewed on a PC)

here is the project page on github: https://github.com/mosermichael/duckduckbang

The old internet shows signs of quietly coming back | Jan 2022

I don't know about web3, but somehow github is quite similar to what we had in the olden days; just search for 'awesome any-topic' in github search, and you will get a curated list of interesting links on nearly any-topic. Also github pages lets you do your own homepage in a git repository, so it's a bit like geocities ;-) I mean our benevolent owners at microsoft give us a free space for self expression, which isn't a facebook/google style walled garden and targeted add pusher, or medium like subscription extractor. It's even better than geocities, they don't put up any adds at all!

You even have the 'The definitive list of lists (of lists)' https://github.com/jnv/lists - looks like the same old culture that moved over to a new home in the sun. (now this spaceship is very fragile, and might disappear upon any minor change of the EULA on github, matters as usual ;-)

Ask HN: Whatever Happened to “Exploring the Internet”? | Oct 2021

you can still find curated lists especially on github, eg: https://github.com/jnv/lists

Ask HN: How do you find what sites/services can help your business? | Sep 2017

I just completed building this:

https://awesomelist-fi.nder.site

Taking jnv/lists[1] as root url, crawling every awesome list on github, and project front pages. Indexing all the text using bleve search library [2]. Serving cold with semantic-ui.

The crawler is a single threaded slow crawler, that keeps on crawling, starts at the head again after completing the tree.

[1] https://github.com/jnv/lists [2] http://www.blevesearch.com/

edit: https

What is your favorite GitHub repository? | Aug 2015

The list of lists. Actually I have several bookmarks like that. It's a treasure chest of good links. https://github.com/jnv/lists

If you look for something more specific the list pointed me to https://github.com/bolshchikov/js-must-watch