alt Hacker NewsA dataset curated by humans, spanning over a thousand years, is awe inspiring on its own. The first person to record their observation must have had no idea what they started. Are there others like this?
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ljf • yesterday at 9:19 PM
If you liked that you might find tbe lost of oldest companies interesting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_companies
It was sad when I checked some time ago how many ancient Japanese companies have closed in tbe last 50 years.
dylan604 • yesterday at 9:55 PM
You mean like the Egyptians keeping records on the constellations?
The times had a little story relevant to this recently:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/climate/japan-cherry-blos...