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If you're not trying to be comprehensive it's not a real directory, it's just an ordinary "awesome-list".

would you call HN just "an awesome list"?

Yes. With comments.

Not really. Awesome lists are mostly curated by an individual, the bar for making it on that list isn’t the same as HN where the community decides the popularity of the entries

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