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Occasionally you see articles on HN with a date in the title, like “(1998)” — and over the years I’ve…
jsomers.netHow HN took it
14 positive, 28 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 6 critical, out of 48 comments about the project. Thread score +0.19.
Execution: 0 for, 5 againstIdea: 4 for, 0 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against
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What people liked
Great way to rediscover timeless articles
From 4 comments
It helps that for us readers we've got a lot of time after they were published to to evaluate those articles with. I probabbly wouldn't understand most of them nearly as well if…
duxup on HNthis is fantastic. Great snapshot of the past. Thank you jsomers for sharing this.
hvd on HNwow, this is really interesting.. and I just reliazed one of the reason why classic writings are special -- especially for another writing material purpose is because it has…
jurnalanas on HNThis is glorious. Thank you.
mud_dauber on HN
Interesting snapshot of HN history
From 2 comments
this is fantastic. Great snapshot of the past. Thank you jsomers for sharing this.
hvd on HNIt's fascinating to dig into HN literature from 1900!
obbobo on HN
Objections
Many linked articles are dead or gone
From 4 comments
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)…
degenerate on HNHmmm... lovely idea, but in practice what I'm getting is a bunch of 404s. The internet is a library with a bunch of books missing...
boffinism on HNSecond link is dead. So is the fourth.
bartl on HNIt may need some broken link tools. I clicked on the 4th link and the site no longer exists, Wayback Machine has it though -…
CookieMon on HN
Requires JavaScript
From 2 comments
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…
pmoriarty on HNThis 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.
Jeaye on HN
Requests
Archive links to dead pages
From 2 comments
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)…
degenerate on HNIt may need some broken link tools. I clicked on the 4th link and the site no longer exists, Wayback Machine has it though -…
CookieMon on HN
Sort by points
From 1 comment
I'd prefer to sort them by points. By age is interesting, by the way. Do you do some deduplication. Some classics are resubmitted a few times successfully. Perhaps add a third…
gus_massa on HN
Browse by year
From 1 comment
This is pretty nice. I also think a browse by year feature would be neat. By that I mean in the same fashion as OP, so I could for example look at posts that had (2011) in the…
bringtheaction on HN
Questions
Why is the list sorted oldest first
From 1 comment
this is really brilliant. But is there a reason you sort the list from the oldest to the newest ? I think it would make sense to have it the other way around. best
lozzo on HN
Why the cutoff at 2012
From 1 comment
Why the cutoff at 2012? (line 71 of index.html) > if (data.hasOwnProperty(yr) && parseInt(yr) < 2012)
zestyping on HN
Alternatives named
Hacker News undocumented classic page
From 1 comment
I found this page of undocumented HN tips [1], finds Hacker News Classic [2] and the top post there was Hacker News Classics [3]. [1]…
kristofferR on HN