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Re: See what Hacker News looked like on the day you joined

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Post by bootload »

"The reason I chose today to drop out was because of a conversation I had with pg last week. He said bluntly that Octopart's chances of getting funding were worse if I stayed in grad school."

Classic. Top story the day I started, "I Dropped Out of Grad School Today" @sam (octopart) [0],[1]

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20070221033032/http://news.ycomb...

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20070223035643/http://octopart.c...

Re: See what Hacker News looked like on the day you joined

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Post by vlad »

bootload wrote: post #3

"The reason I chose today to drop out was because of a conversation I had with pg last week. He said bluntly that Octopart's chances of getting funding were worse if I stayed in grad school." Classic. Top story the day I started, "I Dropped Out of Grad School Today" @sam (octopart) [0],[1] [0] https://web.archive.org/web/20070221033032/http://news.ycomb... [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20070223035643/http://octopar…

You started Feb 22, technically that's a different date. :)

The Archive.org page nearest my join date leads with the "Show HN" post for Dropbox, though I actually joined a month earlier in March 2007.

Another top story from that day asks if people realized the up and down arrows were clickable and used for voting purposes.

Re: See what Hacker News looked like on the day you joined

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Post by tomkwok »

View page source.

  
  $(function () {
  	var 火 = new Firebase("https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/");
  	var ໆ = "http://news.ycombinator.com/";
  	$("#誤").hide();
  	$("form").submit(function () {
  		火.child("v0/user/" + $("#username").val()).on("value", function(結果) { 
  			var 人 = 結果.val();
  			if (人 && 人.created) {
  				var 時 = new Date(人.created * 1e3);
  				var YYYYMMDDhhmmss = 時.toISOString().slice(0,19).replace(/[-T:]/g,"");
  				var ꜛ = "https://web.archive.org/web/".concat(YYYYMMDDhhmmss, "/", ໆ);
  				$('body').fadeOut();
  				location = ꜛ;
  			} else {
  				$("#誤").show();
  			}
  		});
  		return false;
  	});
  });

  /* ASCII art omitted to save space */
Wow, non-latin characters for variable names.

And if you'd like to learn some Chinese, here is the definition of all Chinese characters appeared above.

    火 = fire
    誤 = error / mistake
    時 = time
    結果 = result (a term / expression with figurative meaning)
    果 = fruit
    人 = human / person
---

My pick: 'HNSearch – old HN search engine – will be shut down later today'.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7404972

Re: See what Hacker News looked like on the day you joined

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Post by coolandsmartrr »

tomkwok wrote: post #5

View page source. $(function () { var 火 = new Firebase("https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/"); var ໆ = "http://news.ycombinator.com/"; $("#誤").hide(); $("form").submit(function () { 火.child("v0/user/" + $("#username").val()).on("value", function(結果) { var 人 = 結果.val(); if (人 && 人.created) { var 時 = new Date(人.created * 1e3); var YYYYMMDDhhmmss = 時.toISOString().slice(0,19).replace(/[-T:]/g,""); var ꜛ = "https://web.a…

Neato! Given that Bemmu live in Japan, I think he intended using the Kanji characters as Japanese characters, although they were originally derived from traditional Chinese (still used in Taiwan).

Re: See what Hacker News looked like on the day you joined

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Post by tomkwok »

coolandsmartrr wrote: post #8
tomkwok wrote: post #5

View page source. $(function () { var 火 = new Firebase("https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/"); var ໆ = "http://news.ycombinator.com/"; $("#誤").hide(); $("form").submit(function () { 火.child("v0/user/" + $("#username").val()).on("value", function(結果) { var 人 = 結果.val(); if (人 && 人.created) { var 時 = new Date(人.created * 1e3); var YYYYMMDDhhmmss = 時.toISOString().slice(0,19).replace(/[-T:]/g,""); var ꜛ = "https://web.a…

Neato! Given that Bemmu live in Japan, I think he intended using the Kanji characters as Japanese characters, although they were originally derived from traditional Chinese (still used in Taiwan).

> I think he intended using the Kanji characters as Japanese characters, although they were originally derived from traditional Chinese (still used in Taiwan).

And in Hong Kong where I live.

I can't read Japanese, so the characters above just happened to retain its meaning after being imported to the Japanese language. I know that many don't.

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