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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…
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.
Could be done many ways.
Lets imagine you like text, you dont mind reading something somewhat structured and regular like json and you dont need all the html, css, etc. tags and window dressing.
5-minute quick and dirty solution
1. curl -4o 1.htm http://jsomers.net/hn/stories.json
tr , '\12'
/./{
/{\"/,/}/!d;
}
/\"url\":[^{]/{s/\"url\":/&[FETCH]/;};
/\"objectID\":/{s//&[FETCH COMMENTS]/;s/\"//3;s/\"//3;};
s/{\"created_at\":/\
\
&/g;
/}}}/s/$/\
\
-----------------/g;
$a\
' > 2.htm
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Weekend project challenge! I do lots of scrape-to-ebook projects, so this is fun for me. Check back a few hours later.
Progress so far: https://git.captnemo.in/nemo/hn-classics (Scraped content to markdown, simple Jekyll website in progress)
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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.
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.
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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
Unfortunately, I have so far failed to get a (1538) submission to stick. Well, let's try again: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16444460
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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…
Very cool! Reminds me of the Ezra Pound quote, "Literature is news that stays news." Ezra was a... complicated man, but he had keen insights.