Cool concept!
I have a pet peeves to report: the dark vs. light mode switch should have three choices: light, dark and system. I just can’t believe how many sites don’t do that properly.
Show HN: Forty.News – Daily news, but on a 40-year delay
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#12I've wanted a way to listen to a local radio stations broadcast--including ads and dj banter--from this day X years ago.
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#13Good idea and execution. Adding the metadata mentioned by others in the thread would improve. Otherwise this is a legit cool project.
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#14I like it.
An interesting twist would be to somehow (not sure how) have a followup on the later importance of the news item, which was so worthy of news at that time. I'd guess the vast majority would be "not important by next year". You'd need a creative way to define and convey it, while still being accurate.
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#15Woha! Cool stuff. Would be fantastic to be able to configure the number of years back.
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#17I like the idea vrry much, also because it brings up news from my childhood so it is cool to see them again now and compare with what I remember from back then.
BUT, as others mentioned, you really need to publish the sources of each article.
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#18> India's director of air safety announced that an explosion in the cargo hold apparently caused the crash of an Air-India Jumbo jet last June, killing all 329 people aboard the flight from Canada to Bombay
I forgot what tab opened and I assumed that the report for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_India_Flight_171 was out. Took me a few minutes to realize this wasn't the same crash.
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#19Also (unrelated to my knowledge): https://olduse.net/
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#20I like this because I can read the newspapers of my youth, when I couldn't read international papers like a can today, not that I read any papers.
Fun fact: I emigrated on the Achille Lauro , half way around the world, over a decade before it was hijacked.