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Re: Show HN: Hacker News Classics

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Post by erikb »

bberrry wrote: post #63
fhrow4484 wrote: post #36

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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 22

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?

Re: Show HN: Hacker News Classics

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Post by mannykannot »

degenerate wrote: post #10
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…

FWIW, #4 "Two 4000 ft plumb bobs hung down a mine shaft, with baffling results (1901)" can be found at http://www.lockhaven.edu/~dsimanek/hollow/tamarack.htm

Re: Show HN: Hacker News Classics

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Post by sillysaurus3 »

dang wrote: post #50
greenhouse_gas wrote: post #45

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Just curious: do you (as in Y combinator) use Arc for anything else or is it a "hobby language" for HN?

All of YC's original investment software was written in Arc, though it has been gradually factored out into other systems. We use it for a browser extension that helps a lot with moderation work. And for general experiments. If I do something more ambitiously new it will probably be in Arc.

We use it for a browser extension that helps a lot with moderation work.

Oho, so Arc does compile to JS now.

You gonna release the compiler or what? (Sometime this decade.)

Re: Show HN: Hacker News Classics

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Post by mnx »

chx wrote: post #64
derefr wrote: post #59

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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.

google certainly has some approximation of that, for example

Re: Show HN: Hacker News Classics

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Post by vardump »

dang wrote: post #72
avinassh wrote: post #70

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There seems to be a bug, I can see pages of Feb 30, 31 - https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2017-02-31

Yikes! Thanks for letting us know. Edit: should be fixed now.

The secret is out now.

You can't deny it anymore. Everyone now knows that 31st of February exists.

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