Reference corpus
Questions people really asked, and what actually worked
Threads read for their resolution — the accepted answer rather than the longest argument.
17kthreads
2jurisdictions
What’s in it right now
Read from public question-and-answer sites and forums, with the environment and version a fix applied to kept attached.
By jurisdiction
stackoverflow15,994 · 92%
hackernews1,214 · 7%
What you can do with it
Skip to what resolved it
The accepted answer leads, which is rarely the longest reply.
Match the error, not the words
Find the thread that is genuinely the same problem.
Keep the version attached
A fix from an older release is recognisable as one.
See whether it is still current
Advice ages; the date travels with the thread.
Where it’s used
Code
Code reads this collection when an error message is more useful than documentation.
The index behind it
Read, filed and kept current.
This collection is one shelf of the askFinz index — material read from the source and filed as the kind of thing it is, rather than as undifferentiated web pages. The counts above are read from the running system.