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Re: Hacker News Classics (2018)

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Post by pr0crastin8 »

lt wrote: post #6

I've long had this notion that there are two kinds of content on a site like HN: - temporal, like news, announcements, analysis and discussion on current events. It's usually irrelevant after a while, it gets stale fast. - atemporal, like essays, history, theory, articles, knowledge in general that while it may get superseded, expanded or invalidated over time, it's interesting content that you learn from, from a cur…

I feel much the same way but I'd like to add some support for having the former type of content on HN.

You do get a large response of unqualified opinions, anecdotes and repetitive arguments/flamewars but, amongst the 'noise', you can roughly cluster voices, average out within clusters and get an idea of the range of (mostly) intellectual opinions held.

This 'fuzzy' information won't be neatly laid out as with the atemporal articles but to me it acts almost like a primary resource surveying what the HN community (whatever that represents in reality) believes at a point in time.

Re: Hacker News Classics (2018)

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Post by divbzero »

I know everyone is wondering when Hacker News Classics (2018) will appear on Hacker News Classics (2018). From the underlying code it looks like this depends on: (a) fetch.rb to be run again to regenerate stories.json; (b) the definition of “classic” to be expanded beyond 1900–2010; (c) the Algolia HN API to update which it hasn’t yet. [1] [2]

[1]: https://github.com/jsomers/hacker-classics

[2]: https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search?tags=story&query='2018'...

Re: Hacker News Classics (2018)

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Post by swyx »

This is very inline with the Lindy Effect - things that have been around for a while can be expected to be relevant longer than things that were just created yesterday. Our information diet is only as useful as is relevant in future, and tends toward too fleeting.

So I think people should make Lindy Libraries - reading resources that have stood the test of time. Here are a few I have been collecting: https://codingcareer.circle.so/c/lindy-library

Re: Hacker News Classics (2018)

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Post by Kelamir »

k__ wrote: post #16

Half-OT: HN could optimize the layout for mobile a bit. I'm mostly reading on my smartphone and the links are all sooo small, I can barely hit them with my thumb.

You could use Materialistic or any other apps that make it easier to view HN.

Re: Hacker News Classics (2018)

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Post by thamer »

Not to be confused with Hacker News' /classic: https://news.ycombinator.com/classic

/classic uses the same ranking system as the regular front page but only counts votes from early users, defined as accounts that were created before Feb 13, 2008.

I'm guessing this is an attempt at getting around the Eternal September phenomenon, or at least an experiment around this idea.

Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24401292

Re: Hacker News Classics (2018)

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Post by gus_massa »

ashtonbaker wrote: post #28
niea_11 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or a bot that browses discussions and if any recent ones have > 100 comments automatically sends the link to archive.org to be archived and then add a comment with the link of the archived copy

Are bots allowed here? I've never seen the kind of utility bot that is common on Reddit.

Bots are heavily discouraged here. (Almost totally forbidden.)

Perhaps if the bot sends the page to the archive immediately but instead of posting the comment immediately waits a few days (until the last day comments are allowed), it will not so controversial because it will add no noise to the conversation.

It's better to send an email to the mods with the idea before implementing it, because the bot may get banned.

Re: Hacker News Classics (2018)

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Post by dang »

ChrisArchitect wrote: post #29

Some more discussion from a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22004066

Yup - plus an earlier:

Hacker News Classics (2018) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22004066 - Jan 2020 (42 comments)

Show HN: Hacker News Classics - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16442888 - Feb 2018 (107 comments)

Re: Hacker News Classics (2018)

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Post by dang »

tantalor wrote: post #4

Unfortunately HN locks the comments after a while. Mods: we need a way to fix deadlinks Example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1140283 redirects to wrong place. Correct new link is https://lockhaven.edu/~dsimanek/hollow/tamarack.htm

We updated that one — thanks!
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