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Re: The front page of HN almost exactly 5 years ago

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Post by DanBC »

someperson wrote: post #20
aviv wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A lot of good content is buried in archives of good blogs/news sites, and popular aggregators such as Flipboard completely ignore anything but the freshest materials. I worked on FavoritePosts.com a while back, it basically helps you discover older content that's otherwise invisible due to our existing content consumption habits. Maybe I should launch what I have so far.. It's like Prismatic for older stuff.

Yeah do it! I've been thinking about how those who up-vote stories on HN very carefully have an enormous wealth of interesting content in the "saved stories" section their profiles. It's such a shame that this is value is locked away: Somebody could generate pages and pages of amazingly interesting content based on other people who upvote similar to themselves.

That could be amazing - a user picks 3 other HN users, and gets a weighted list of their saved stories.

Re: The front page of HN almost exactly 5 years ago

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Post by rahul_rstudio »

What I like about HN is the simplicity and quality of content it has offered since so many years. I heard about HN only about a year ago and have been regularly reading it. The insights and inspiration it offers to newcomers is simply awesome.

The homepage looks just as it looked 5 years ago. That is something worth applauding. It just proves quality and simplicity always win in the longterm.

Re: The front page of HN almost exactly 5 years ago

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Post by JeremyMorgan »

dennisgorelik wrote: post #32
nsxwolf wrote: post #29

I wonder if that person chose the baby or the startup.

I don't know about the baby, but he definitely quit his startup. 2007: http://web.archive.org/web/20071012022938/http://www.shelfma... Now: http://www.shelfmade.net/

Either that or he learned Japanese

Re: The front page of HN almost exactly 5 years ago

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Post by krmmalik »

aviv wrote: post #9
Xcelerate wrote: post #5

Interesting how the articles on the HN homepage are almost timeless. Many of those articles I find just as interesting as the one's posted on today's homepage (perhaps more interesting since there's more programming and less consumer tech news).

A lot of good content is buried in archives of good blogs/news sites, and popular aggregators such as Flipboard completely ignore anything but the freshest materials. I worked on FavoritePosts.com a while back, it basically helps you discover older content that's otherwise invisible due to our existing content consumption habits. Maybe I should launch what I have so far.. It's like Prismatic for older stuff.

I would also be interested in something like that. The 37signals article for example is probably just as useful today as it was then. We need an aggregator of timeless articles.

Re: The front page of HN almost exactly 5 years ago

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Post by tucson »

aviv wrote: post #9
Xcelerate wrote: post #5

Interesting how the articles on the HN homepage are almost timeless. Many of those articles I find just as interesting as the one's posted on today's homepage (perhaps more interesting since there's more programming and less consumer tech news).

A lot of good content is buried in archives of good blogs/news sites, and popular aggregators such as Flipboard completely ignore anything but the freshest materials. I worked on FavoritePosts.com a while back, it basically helps you discover older content that's otherwise invisible due to our existing content consumption habits. Maybe I should launch what I have so far.. It's like Prismatic for older stuff.

Had the same idea. http://www.hneasy.com/index.php?type=posts&hours=70000
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