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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.
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.
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…
http://archive.org/wayback/available?url=http://yorktownhist...
It returns a json with, notably, the closest archived page given the timestamp.
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…
Ezra was a... complicated man, but he had keen insights.
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.
Out of curiosity, for the date rendering, did you xdef racket's date libraries or implement your own date algorithms in arc?
I guess you could've also shelled out to `date -r ` which would get the feature done in about ten seconds.
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!
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.
Note that https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2007-02-18 doesn't let you navigate backwards, but https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-09 is the first day. Out of curiosity, for the date rendering, did you xdef racket's date libraries or implement your own date algorithms in arc? I guess you could've also shelled out to `date -r ` which would get the feature done in about ten seconds.
Yes, and we specifically left it as an exercise for the pokey reader to figure out why.
Arc does its own date stuff. We extended it a bit to be able to print things like "x months ago". Edit: and "Feb 31, 2017".
well done!
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.