A truly motivated individual is likely to realize that this question is Googleable and will find tons of information.
Agreed. And there are many other HN-related routes too - I've had great responses asking questions of HNOfficeHours individuals.
Making a nice resource, perhaps with some HN flavored info, would be really great were it to be referenced.
Do you think a compilation would be referenced enough to make it worthwhile? Sounds like a valuable side project if it would actually be used.
Some sites give links to such info when a user signs up, have always visible links in a sidebar, etc., and people still ask, and just as often.
So I think dealing with this is like doing laundry: however well you approach the task and whatever resources you throw at it, it will need doing again in a few days, and a few days after that, forever. Realizing that, you can make the task as pleasurable and efficient as possible, but it will always be a recurring task.
A truly motivated individual is likely to realize that this question is Googleable and will find tons of information. That leaves us with the occasional capable and motivated person asking for some guidance that HN could uniquely provide, and the rest of such questions are less worthy, IMO.
Making a nice resource, perhaps with some HN flavored info, would be really great were it to be referenced. The best case to me would be that "how to learn programming" posts would get no up votes and a single comment linking the resource. Or something along those lines.