91–100 of 111 posts
Occasionally 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…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Tomte is Swedish for "Santa", which seems fitting.
Why? Does he know when you are naughty? Do you also feel like watching out and not crying when he comes to town?
With regards to Classics, the "You're probably using the wrong dictionary" blog post at http://jsomers.net/blog/dictionary was probably the most interesting pieces I've read on HN.
I'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.
I created this for my own use but sharing it here because others may find it useful (hope this isn't breaking any HN etiquette and if you're the original author and want me to take it down please let me know).
[1] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16MNPM9fhpglC1s1OV-tp...
[2] https://gist.github.com/san-kumar/0b7d218a08d4d8b4a7d9c07db5...
Anyone fancy putting all of these into a Kindle/PDF? :)
Weekend project challenge! I do lots of scrape-to-ebook projects, so this is fun for me. Check back a few hours later.
(Scraped content to markdown, simple Jekyll website in progress)
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why? Does he know when you are naughty? Do you also feel like watching out and not crying when he comes to town?
If I recall correctly, the story of Tomte is one where he is alone on Christmas night, pondering what life and death is, and decides that the art of giving is best virtue. He then knocks on everyone's door with a pig beside him and hands out presents to everyone who opens it for him.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is a clever and simple way to dredge up some great posts. I wonder if you could ensure fewer false negatives (i.e. find even more great stuff) by doing the opposite: attempting to filter out every post whose link is to a page that came into existence within a month of the post's submission date. This would likely require scraping the source links (unless you can get that from the https://cloud.google.com/bigquer…
I wonder how would you determine when a page came into existence.