Let us not forget <a href="https://twitter.com/shit_hn_says" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/shit_hn_says</a> -- pooling the "wisdom" of Hacker News comments.
For anyone interested, an active HNer Edward Weismann (edw519) made an eBook[1] out of his contributions on HN. Certain of his opinions can be disagreed with but there is a lot of wisdom in his comments.<p>[1]: <a href="http://static.v25media.com/edw519_mod.html" rel="nofollow">http://static.v25media.com/edw519_mod.html</a>
Inspired by the recent 'What are the most uplifting comments you've read on HN?' discussion [1], I've compiled some of my favourites into an eBook. Pull requests welcome!<p>[1] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9393213" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9393213</a>
From the name I thought it was going to be a book of text generated by a Markov chain trained on HN comment data. Took me a while to figure out it wasn't.<p>Anyway, good collection of comments. It'd be useful to have a HTML version linked in the README.
I'm currently working on a similar idea: <a href="https://github.com/TimDaub/hnwisdom" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/TimDaub/hnwisdom</a><p>I'm trying to collect wise hackernews comments.
It'd be interesting to separate upvotes from downvotes somehow. I've observed that many of my most-upvoted comments receive a <i>lot</i> of downvotes as well - usually for questioning HN conventional wisdom. And I find most of the comments that I really like, that I think are really outstanding, are at odds with the groupthink as well.