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Hana Lee Goldin
Personal blog · cardcatalogforlife.substack.comaiculture
Hana Lee Goldin writes Card Catalog, a personal blog at cardcatalogforlife.substack.com about ai and culture. Since 2026, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Google has a secret reference desk”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this Substack for posts on Google's lesser-known search features and on how information is organised and judged. One commenter calls it a great resource.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Teaching you how to think like a librarian in the age of AI.
Most-linked posts?
- Google has a secret reference desk4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2026-03-16
What Hacker News says?
A great resource - I decided hey, I’ll definitely forget this stuff so why not turn it into a tool for myself: > Can you read https://cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has-a-secre... and create a single file html tool (browser only, no backend) that lets users construct a Google search and jump to google with their query, helping them make use of the features mentioned when building up their query?
Comment linking /p/google-has-a-secret-reference-desk
on “Google has a secret reference desk”Submitted Google has a secret reference desk as a story · 7 points
HN discussion> There used to be a professional layer between most people and raw information. Librarians, researchers, editors, fact-checkers: people whose entire job was to understand how information was organized, who produced it, what motivated them, and where the gaps were in any given source. You didn’t need to think much about any of that, because someone else already had. > That layer has largely dissolved. Search engines…
Comment linking /i/188856309/the-skill-nobody-told-you-youd-need
on “Google has a secret reference desk”Submitted Google Has a Secret Reference Desk as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Google has a secret reference desk as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted So What If They Have My Data? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Our Horizon of Possibilities: How Algorithms Contract Our World as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Google Has a Secret Reference Desk as a story · 1 points
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