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Ask HN: Information you would like in one central place

by scottilee on 12/26/15, 3:33 PM with 6 comments

• by LarryMade2 on 12/28/15, 4:13 AM

  This is what I'm working on for local community resources - http://doplaces.com The info is readily out there, and as you say there is info in lots of places... problem is some people don't really one solution especially if it isn't theirs.

  For inspiration I googled around and looked at community search, event calendars, etc in the Portland area, sooo many variations, some good some not so good, some strictly limited in scope, other with specific goals that don't mesh with others.

  It all sounds a lot easier to envision than achieve. My suggestion just find something you think you can do better and start eking out your niche.

• by sail on 1/5/16, 10:17 PM

  How to live.

  A central place with 10-sentence (or less) summaries from the most important books. So I could read everything from this one place in 1 month and bootstrap myself as a human.

  e.g. like Derek Sivers's book notes from https://sivers.org/book but shorter and denser.

• by AstroJetson on 12/26/15, 3:45 PM

  I have a number of things that I'm interested in from compiler and interpreter design to boating to things about the Raspberry Pi. While most of it I can find with Google, what I do is put the link and a snippet about the details and keep that in a personal wiki that I run. (Quick shout out to JSPWiki)

  This lets me find things that are closer to what I want or have used before (where was that set of instructions on the Pi Sense Hat). The wiki allows me to categorize things for easier finding, but the built in search helps.

  I also own books like Machinery's Handbook, ARRL Handbook (ham radio) and the CRC Handbook for quick data reference. All of that information is on the web, but the books bring it to something that is a little quicker for me to find.

• by rahimnathwani on 12/27/15, 9:01 AM

  I use Safari Books Online to read technical books. I love the way I can search for a topic or keyword, and instantly read about it in a bunch of different books. I'd like that for all books.

• by miguelrochefort on 12/27/15, 7:16 PM

  Everything.

  I hate having dozens of different inboxes. I hate having over 100 apps on my phone. I hate having to create over 1000 for different services and websites.

  I want all data to be unified, and I understand that for this to work we need to think differently. We need a different language. That happens to be what I'm currently working on.