Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

off base question, i suppose inspired by porch sitting + reading gwern's case studies: https://www.gwern.net/Search#case-studies

i think i would have found most of the examples gwern listed, maybe not as quickly. i go wild on google iteratively before jumping to another search engine

but, is there a tournament or contest along the lines of 'producing some result via searches' quicker than others? im thinking a form of this might exist at defcon/thotcon/similar

ironically, instead of searching, im asking here haha



If idly daydreamed about this becoming a sport like esports. Huge crowds cheering as I find that obscure English ePub on a Chinese site, they roar with delight as I DDG !bang their faces off.

Monster energy sponsoring the fastest ‘search parent directory’ surfers.

Ahhh if only.

Also while I’m at it I’d like ‘kicking stones against other stones at juuuuuust the right angle to ping against another stone while walking leashed dogs’ to become an Olympic sport.


> but, is there a tournament or contest along the lines of 'producing some result via searches' quicker than others? im thinking a form of this might exist at defcon/thotcon/similar

If there is, it will definitely have deliberately horrible SEO.




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: