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Re: Show HN: Hacker News Classics

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Post by baddox »

This is very cool! Based on the title “HN Classics,” I thought it might be an implementation of another idea I’ve had. I had this idea to search for stand-out articles that get reposted every so often and always get a lot of good attention and discussion: so-called classics of HN.

I think that data could be very interesting, and would also serve as a sort of “hall of fame” of articles the HN community loves (moreso than just a list of the most upvoted articles of all time).

Of course, you could also figure out the optimal duration between successive posts, and figure out when to repost yourself, if anyone wants a karma-grab. ;)

Re: Show HN: Hacker News Classics

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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…

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Re: Show HN: Hacker News Classics

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Post by toomuchtodo »

CookieMon wrote: post #33

It may need some broken link tools. I clicked on the 4th link and the site no longer exists, Wayback Machine has it though - https://web.archive.org/web/20170606131659/http://www.lhup.e... Perhaps Hacker Classics could automatically ensure all remaining live links get archived?

> Perhaps Hacker Classics could automatically ensure all remaining live links get archived?

Done. I'm going to run through every URL ever cited on HN at some point when time permits.

Re: Show HN: Hacker News Classics

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Post by greenhouse_gas »

dang wrote: post #17
sillysaurus3 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> 2007-02-18 doesn't let you navigate backwards 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".

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

Re: Show HN: Hacker News Classics

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Post by Jeaye »

pmoriarty wrote: post #7

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.

This is a totally reasonable request and I was looking to say much the same thing. Anything resembling HN, or in the spirit of HN, shouldn't require JS to view, I think.

Re: Show HN: Hacker News Classics

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Post by Tomte »

fhrow4484 wrote: post #36
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…

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

Re: Show HN: Hacker News Classics

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Post by dang »

greenhouse_gas wrote: post #45
dang wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 2007-02-18 doesn't let you navigate backwards 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".

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.

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