One prompt mines 8 most-upvoted life lessons from Hacker News history
vista8 · x · 2026-11-05
Blogger vista8 used a single prompt — "find the most endorsed life lessons from the 12G Hacker News database" — to surface 8 highly upvoted takeaways: don't wait to spend time with people who matter (Paul Graham); an ordinary, reliable life with companions is worthwhile; don't mistake test-taking skill for a life goal (The Lesson to Unlearn); money buys back time and optionality (Sam Altman's Tips for a Better Life); making others feel dumb doesn't make you right; allow bad first drafts and catch up by shipping; when procrastinating, look for friction before self-blame; and avoid "I'm just not that kind of person" self-labels. It's essentially a recipe for treating the full HN corpus as a searchable knowledge base with an LLM.
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