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Show HN: Hacker News Classics
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#32So in case I’m not spending enough time on the front page of this HN, good to know there’s a nearly infinite depth to plumb. And now I’m reading Arnold Bennett’s ‘How to Live on 24 Hours a Day’ originally published in 1908. Good to know tongue-in-cheek self-help books will never go out of style! [1] - http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2274/2274-h/2274-h.htm
I actually enjoyed reading this today. One highlight was the below on "reading the news every morning"
" The idea of devoting to them thirty or forty consecutive minutes of wonderful solitude (for nowhere can one more perfectly immerse one's self in one's self than in a compartment full of silent, withdrawn, smoking males) is to me repugnant "
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#33It may need some broken link tools. I clicked on the 4th link and the site no longer exists, Wayback Machine has it though - https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131659/http://www.lhup.e...
Perhaps Hacker Classics could automatically ensure all remaining live links get archived?
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#34Occasionally you see articles on HN with a date in the title, like “(1998)” — and over the years I’ve noticed that these tend to be some of the best posts. It makes sense: on a site devoted to news , an article posted so long after it was published has to be especially good. So I hacked together this page, which links to every HN post with a date in its title earning more than 40 votes. It’s sorted in chronological o…
It helps that for us readers we've got a lot of time after they were published to to evaluate those articles with.
I probabbly wouldn't understand most of them nearly as well if they weren't proven out by recent history ;)
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#35Suggested title: Hacker Olds
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#36Occasionally you see articles on HN with a date in the title, like “(1998)” — and over the years I’ve noticed that these tend to be some of the best posts. It makes sense: on a site devoted to news , an article posted so long after it was published has to be especially good. So I hacked together this page, which links to every HN post with a date in its title earning more than 40 votes. It’s sorted in chronological o…
Really cool!
Out of the 2k+ posts you list, some people are good at finding good quality classics!
The top 10 here combined accounts for more than 10% of all the posts:
USER POSTS COUNT
Tomte 66
luu 42
tosh 33
ColinWright 27
adamnemecek 26
vezzy-fnord 26
brudgers 25
pmoriarty 24
networked 23
shawndumas 22Re: Show HN: Hacker News Classics
#37It may need some broken link tools. I clicked on the 4th link and the site no longer exists, Wayback Machine has it though - https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131659/http://www.lhup.e... Perhaps Hacker Classics could automatically ensure all remaining live links get archived?
"it's easy to forget that the web is the greatest library in the history of the world"
Until someone stops paying the host server or the domain expires and then those books just disappear.
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#38Paywall on article from 1930. That's a sad state of affairs.
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#39I found this page of undocumented HN tips [1], finds Hacker News Classic [2] and the top post there was Hacker News Classics [3].
[1] https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/classic
Quite a cool coincidence!
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#40I'd prefer to sort them by points. By age is interesting, by the way. Do you do some deduplication. Some classics are resubmitted a few times successfully. Perhaps add a third sort criteria, that is sorted by the number of big reposts.
Yes it looks like they do deduplication, based on the HTML source:
for (var i in data[yr]) {
var story = data[yr][i];
if (seen_titles[story.title]) continue;
seen_titles[story.title] = 1;
// ...add story to list of stories
};