Ask YC Archive

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/startupswiki/Ask_YC_Archive

by brewski • 16 years ago

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secret• 16 years ago

It would be nice to have a section with all the "review my start up" posts. Those are usually some of the best ones.

jacquesm2• 16 years ago

sed s/\ /\\\n/g < Ask_YC_Archive | grep id\= | cut -d '=' -f 3 | cut -d '"' -f 1 | sort -n

gives 363096 as the highest id there, so http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363096 is the latest entry that was added to the collection, which is 1 year and 9 months old.

There must be plenty of quality stuff added in the meantime. Is there a reason why the list is no longer updated? It's a wonderful resource by the looks of it.

pchristensen• 16 years ago

Gabriel mentioned it was manually done and took a lot of time. Fair enough, but boy I wish it was updated and current.

paulgb• 16 years ago

Try this:

http://ask.searchyc.com/

epi0Bauqu• 16 years ago

Happy to bring it up to date and update it regularly if it gets linked on news.yc where people can find it.

DanielRibeiro• 16 years ago

It still would be nice to have an open api on hacker news. At least so that i don't have to rely on delicious to see what i upvoted.

jacquesm2• 16 years ago

Check the 'saved' link in your profile!

ralph• 16 years ago

Agreed.

    $ wget -qO- http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/startupswiki/Ask_YC_Archive |
    > egrep -o 'item\?id=[0-9]+' |
    > sort -t= -k2nr |
    > sed q
    item?id=363096
    $

michaelfairley• 16 years ago

I've got an updated one of these in the works that will be up within the week!

Let me know of any specific requests for things that Gaberiel's list doesn't have. I'm already planning on keeping a current link to the most recent "Who's hiring" and including "Rate My Startups"s.

mkr-hn2• 16 years ago

I would like to see a HN question archive, meaning questions about HN. I still haven't been able to figure out how to do an indented quote block (which I've seen), but I know someone had to have asked about formatting at some point.

mrduncan2• 16 years ago

Here's the official formatting info - http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc

The indented quote blocks you've seen are simply code blocks - just indent with 2 spaces.

RiderOfGiraffes2• 16 years ago

There's a FAQ link at the bottom of every page, and that has a link to the formatting.

Poleris• 16 years ago

Why not just edit Gabriel's? As far as I can tell, it's a wiki.

prs• 16 years ago

Duplicate entry - See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1126993 for additional discussions.

chanux• 16 years ago

People can get excited about the same thing time to time. Especially in a community new people coming in.

mrduncan2• 16 years ago

http://ask.searchyc.com/ is also a good resource - posts are displayed with font sizes relative to their points.

tewks• 16 years ago

http://news.ycombinator.com/ask

ck2• 16 years ago

Wow it's like the old handmade directories of the web (before google ended all that).

skmurphy• 16 years ago

I think the word you are looking for is curated.

RiderOfGiraffes2• 16 years ago

I parse that title as

"Here's your opportunity to ask questions of the YC archive"

rather than the intended

"Here's an archive of the 'Ask YC' items."

Sometimes what one writes is not what the reader reads - care required. The URL for the Italian branch of PowerGen springs to mind, as does the URL for the site listing the representatives of various celebreties.

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