Show HN: Hacker News Classics

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Post by jsomers » Fri, Feb 23, 2018, 12:11 AM UTC

Show HN: Hacker News Classics
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Re: Show HN: Hacker News Classics

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Post by jsomers » Fri, Feb 23, 2018, 12:11 AM UTC

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 order to encourage wandering.

Re: Show HN: Hacker News Classics

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Post by gus_massa » Fri, Feb 23, 2018, 12:27 AM UTC

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.

Re: Show HN: Hacker News Classics

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Post by nugi » Fri, Feb 23, 2018, 12:27 AM UTC

Wow, this is great.

Were there no pre 1900 refrences or is that just were you chose to start?

Re: Show HN: Hacker News Classics

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Post by dang » Fri, Feb 23, 2018, 12:28 AM UTC

You can also to go https://news.ycombinator.com/front to bounce around how HN's front page looked on past days, like https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2016-06-20.

Or click on the date in an account's profile to see what HN looked like on its birthday.

Re: Show HN: Hacker News Classics

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Post by jsomers » Fri, Feb 23, 2018, 12:30 AM UTC

nugi wrote: post #4

Wow, this is great. Were there no pre 1900 refrences or is that just were you chose to start?

I started it somewhat arbitrarily in 1900.

Re: Show HN: Hacker News Classics

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Post by pmoriarty » Fri, Feb 23, 2018, 12:35 AM UTC

Any way this could be done without requiring javascript?

For security, ad-blocking, and privacy reasons I have javascript blocked in my browser, and really don't like to turn it on except for sites like my bank.

Re: Show HN: Hacker News Classics

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Post by _lce0 » Fri, Feb 23, 2018, 12:39 AM UTC

jsomers wrote: post #6

nugi wrote: post #4

Wow, this is great. Were there no pre 1900 refrences or is that just were you chose to start?

I started it somewhat arbitrarily in 1900.

ahh was about to publish something in BC just to see what happens ;)

Re: Show HN: Hacker News Classics

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Post by CGamesPlay » Fri, Feb 23, 2018, 12:46 AM UTC

Since the first post is 1900 and it appears to be sorted by date, I wanted to verify: there were no posts from the 1800s worth showing?

Re: Show HN: Hacker News Classics

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Post by degenerate » Fri, Feb 23, 2018, 12:49 AM UTC

jsomers wrote: post #2

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…

For links that are now defunct/gone (such as #2 on the chronological list), can you pull the web archive at the closest date to the submission?

(dead) http://yorktownhistory.org/homepages/1900_predictions.htm ===> https://web.archive.org/web/20100108205037/http://yorktownhi... (archive from 6 days later)

I don't think this can be done programmatically though... thanks for putting this together. I enjoy the old posts a lot, too.