But also just think of all the useful software that hasn't been written by people sitting around thinking about all the useful software that could be written.
I'd love to see a project on github that mines HN posts for a decent sized list of this.
I'll start-- off the top of my head I remember a post from Mike Hearn about starting the web from scratch using a format that announces the size of the incoming message rather than making the recipient check for terminator(s).
There must be a dozen dozen such thoughts-without-software of "the web, but good" on here.
If we have a list then you could plug it in to a script and have a spit out a random set, and then you could focus specifically on those.
Anyway, I'm thinking it should be stored and maintained as a quine...
