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I was surprised that there wasn't a feature here that lets you go back in time to the front page of Hacker News on a random day...so I made one. http:\u002F\u002Frandomhackernews.com is a simple HTML page that navigates you to the front page of HN on a random day between today and February 19, 2007 (the oldest date I could find with content).\n\nI made this for myself, but figured others may find some interest in it.",{"problem":47,"audience":53,"pricing":61,"motivation":62,"time_to_build":61,"stack":66,"openness":67,"stage":68,"team_size":67},{"value":48,"source":49,"evidence":50},"Lets people browse past Hacker News front pages on a random day.","maker",[51],{"id":52},"post",{"value":54,"source":55,"evidence":56},"Hacker News readers interested in the site's history.","inferred",[57,58],{"id":52},{"id":59,"by":11,"text":60},"39264806","Thanks for the feedback everyone! I've updated the website to open HN in a new tab",null,{"value":63,"source":49,"evidence":64},"Maker was surprised no such feature existed and built one for themselves.",[65],{"id":52},[],"unknown","launched",{"praise":70,"objections":87,"requests":110,"questions":140,"alternatives":148},[71],{"value":72,"source":73,"evidence":74},"Nice way to explore old front pages and find missed stories.","commenter",[75,79,83],{"id":76,"by":77,"text":78},"39268941","breakfastduck","Amazing way to browse the site, well done",{"id":80,"by":81,"text":82},"39271295","wscourge","I went there once and found something useful. Kudos.",{"id":84,"by":85,"text":86},"39267496","Liftyee","Clicked all the links on today's front page? Just go here for more.",[88,99],{"value":89,"source":73,"evidence":90},"Hijacking the back button breaks navigation.",[91,95],{"id":92,"by":93,"text":94},"39262836","sph","Please do not hijack the back button. Your website should send a 307 Temporary Redirect to HN, so when I go back, I return to where I was, instead of being sent to another random…",{"id":96,"by":97,"text":98},"39263160","sneela","It's incredibly annoying when this isn't taken care of. Alt + Left Arrow becomes impossible to use and I have to resort to using my mouse. Don't Microsoft's support pages [1] do…",{"value":100,"source":73,"evidence":101},"Many old linked articles are dead (link rot).",[102,106],{"id":103,"by":104,"text":105},"39264795","Pathogen-David","I counted 14 out of 30 links on the front page back then still work and appear to refer to the same article \u002F something relevant to the original submission. Link rot is always…",{"id":107,"by":108,"text":109},"39282763","Astraco","This is great. But is so depressing opening a link and finding a 404 page or the site gone.",[111,118,129],{"value":112,"source":73,"evidence":113},"Open Hacker News in a new tab by default.",[114],{"id":115,"by":116,"text":117},"39263128","sujayk_33","Please make it open in a new tab, that'll make more sense (I suppose). It's not pleasing to go back to use it again.",{"value":119,"source":73,"evidence":120},"Add random week or top posts per week view.",[121,125],{"id":122,"by":123,"text":124},"39269023","mattigames","Random day is a bit overkill in my opinion, in the sense that there are too many days to explore, I would be more interested in random week, as in the most upvoted that week, as…",{"id":126,"by":127,"text":128},"39266062","ks2048","Nice work. Slightly related question: say one hasn't visited HN in a few weeks and wants to see something like the top N posts of a given week. Does this exist?",{"value":130,"source":73,"evidence":131},"Link to Wayback Machine archive copies of old articles.",[132,136],{"id":133,"by":134,"text":135},"39269090","urbandw311er","Cool - nice idea. Can I make a feature request? Automatically offer an alternate fetch of a post’s target URL from the Internet archive. The first post I found (from 2012) was…",{"id":137,"by":138,"text":139},"39266556","pimlottc","It would be great if HN automatically added a \"wayback machine\" link for articles over, say, one year ago.",[141],{"value":142,"source":73,"evidence":143},"Why was the feature surprising or does another site have it?",[144],{"id":145,"by":146,"text":147},"39263651","hk__2","> I was surprised that there wasn't a feature here that lets you go back in time to the front page of Hacker News on a random day May I ask why were you surprised? Which other…",[149,160,167],{"value":150,"source":73,"evidence":151},"HN \u002Ffront?day= pages and hn.algolia.com custom date ranges.",[152,156],{"id":153,"by":154,"text":155},"39264924","dang","I'm happy to see people looking at \u002Ffront?day=yyyy-mm-dd because it's a trove of great stories and threads. It's linked from \"past\" in the top bar, if anyone didn't know. Please…",{"id":157,"by":158,"text":159},"39266971","CrypticShift","You can use a custom range on hn.algolia.com [1]. 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