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HN on second day from launch
- scarface74 8y agoAnother more generic site that lets you look back on HN as well as other sites as they were a decade ago. http://tenyearsago.io/ http://tenyearsago.io/ Sometimes it seems to get stuck on a certain date for a week.
- Daktest 8y agoLooks like it hasn't changed much... which is a good thing!
- faitswulff 8y agoDesign that stands the test of time :)
- brianpgordon 8y agoIt's still as bad as it always was, if that's what you mean. :P http://hckrnews.com/ http://hckrnews.com/ is much better.
- wtmt 8y agohttps://hackerweb.app https://hackerweb.app is also nice if you'd like to skim through the story list and the top level comment threads using a better interface (YMMV). You can also expand specific comment threads.
- Jaruzel 8y agogood/bad is subjective. I like HN just the way it is, and I don't actually prefer http://hckrnews.com http://hckrnews.com There's a page out there somewhere, where someone curates a list of all the alternative HN portals.
- fuddle 8y agoI was expecting to see a very basic website, turns out only the title has changed :)
- DoreenMichele 8y agoI think people are fascinated with stuff like this because it seems impossible to predict where it is going at the time, but we hope that if we look back we can either see some king of indicator of future greatness or at least reassure ourselves that our crappy looking early stage project isn't necessarily doomed. After all, x, y or z didn't look that different back in the day. (Or whatever.)
- jolmg 8y agoShame we can't see the threads.
- hlfshell 8y agoYou can. If you hover over you can see the ID # of the thread - copy that ID # into the url of this thread and it'll direct you right there. Case in point: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=189 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=189
- faitswulff 8y agoThey're still available, just note the id. For instance the top post on that day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=227 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=227
- ekc 8y agoYou can, actually: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2007-02-20 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2007-02-20
- minimaxir 8y agoYou don't need an archive link to view HN at a given time. https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2007-02-20 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2007-02-20
- garciagomezluis 8y agoI didn't know. Thanks.
- jessedhillon 8y agoWhy does Michael Arrington have the same dead comment on every post?
- svdr 8y agoTrue, but a lot of the linked pages 404. Not so at the archive.org page.
- dubin 8y agoSee also WaybackHN, which will let you browse by year and month, too. (I made it heh) http://www.waybackhn.com/ http://www.waybackhn.com/
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- dajohnson89 8y agoThe archive link preserves any formatting changes. Which i imagine is the interesting part about this (HN UI hasnt really changed)
- buboard 8y agoClickbait titles, useful advice "how to track user's mouse movement" (!!) , and Europe's osteoporosis. Good times though; for me Hacker news has lost a lot of its appeal in the past 4-5 years, as for some reason it has become overly political and "suits-oriented". I used to read a lot of technical commentary, which i now find on reddit instead.
- oskkejdjdkjd 8y agoI so rarely come across a commenter who shares this opinion that I feel like I want to hug you. Hacker news has declined in quality. The most precipitous drop in my opinion was right after all the buzz about Facebook becoming less popular, musk joining mastodon and everyone in the comments brainstorming about alternative social media schemes. After that things really took a dive. I think it has to do with the influx of new programmers and the growth of programming as an industry. Programming is becoming easier and more mainstream so the natural result is the ratio of excellent people to disappointing people changing for the worse. computer forums no longer intrisincly filter out stupid people. Googling “reddit alternative,” HN is on of the first results. I find lobste.rs to still be good. It probably has to do with the fact that you need an invite to post there. I’m really scared and disappointed by HNs decline. HN is the only good intellectual watering hole on the internet as far as I know, and I have looked. If HN were to continue getting worse or if it shut down, it would be a huge loss for me. I’ve considered starting a new website, filling it with a hand-curated pool of users gathered from around the internet, and then launching an invite system. Lobsters isn’t good enough because it focuses too narrowly on web development and also people are really afraid to comment there because they might mar their image or get their invite revoked, I think. I believe there is a very large amount of arbitrage when it comes to online communities. There is so much arbitrage! A new Wikipedia that’s actually good at teaching rather than just being a reference book for experts. Social sites that differentiate between curation, storing and fluid, in-flux communication and exchange. And most of all, using new techniques for raising the quality of content and comments. The space of incentive schemes is virtually boundless and there are def some veins of gold out there.
- dabockster 8y ago
- cookingrobot 8y agoAn interesting nugget here is a post by Evan Williams about putting Odeo up for sale to focus on Twitter. Here’s what Twitter looked like then: https://web.archive.org/web/20070225121301/http://twitter.com:80/ https://web.archive.org/web/20070225121301/http://twitter.co...
- duck 8y agoI use to run a project that looked back in time on HN, but it was pretty depressing to see so many dead links each week. Thankfully the Internet Archive solves a lot of this, but it makes you think how fragile the web is. http://www.waybackletter.com/issue/2012-06-06.html http://www.waybackletter.com/issue/2012-06-06.html
- nickpsecurity 8y agoMuch prefer it in its current form. Way more interesting content across so many subject areas. We still have plenty of interesting stuff for startup fans, too. If anything, it's strange and kind of amazing that it got here starting from a narrowly-focused beginning. I came in too late to see how that transition happened. Would've been interesting to watch.
- conductr 8y agoSlow and mostly in hindsight. I’m not a big fan that many front page links are to big news outlets nowadays. It’s not hard to find NYT, WSJ, Economist, etc news and I’m not generally seeking out that type of content here. But I see a lot of it on HN now. And geez so many paywall links. I liked it much more when it was more independent content. More focused on learning and building. It felt like the whole start up thing was new and everyone was helping each other learn. Regardless of time, the comments keep me coming back. It feels more like the “old” internet when it had a net positive vibe.
- nickpsecurity 8y agoYou could make a custom view that filters that stuff. Maybe logs it so you can spend some time scanning through any that might be interesting to you. Most of the time, though, you just see the non-news links.
- rovyko 8y ago> I dropped out of grad school today Second post is the co-founder of Octopart. Not surprising, since they were funded by YC, but I'm glad things turned out well for Andres. > ... I'm a shell of the personality I used to be. Basically, I had been languishing in school and had gotten comfortable with mediocrity. I know this feeling.
- veddox 8y agoThe second link is interesting: HN's original announcement (https://news.ycombinator.com/announcingnews.html https://news.ycombinator.com/announcingnews.html) Especially the point that they tried to build a community where people would actually get to know each other. That didn't scale too well...
- intopieces 8y agoThe Wayback Machine box is bordered in black. On first glance I thought the second day of HN had a black banner and I thought damn, we lost someone on day 2?
- chenpengcheng 8y agoReading this for a year and posts have become less interesting.