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What does news dot YC do with posts that are obsolete?

• nurall 19y ago
  Just realised this: Startup News: 150 posts New: Top 50 posts Best: Top 50 posts Couple of questions: 1. Is the Startup News section a combination of New and Best? 2. What about the ones that don't show up under these sections? Are they permanently lost?
  • danielha 19y ago
    Startup News is the current hot stories. Best is stories with record-high votes. Older stories are still around. They're just not linked to anymore. You can search for them at nycs.bigheadlabs.com
    • ericc 19y ago
      Is http://nycs.bigheadlabs.com/ http://nycs.bigheadlabs.com/ the only way to access those posts that are not linked anymore? You must have an API that gets you access to these unlinked posts, correct?
      • jey 19y ago
        i = 0 while True:     i += 1     if not urlfetch('http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=%d' http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=%d' % i):         break # implementaton of urlfetch() left as an exercise to the reader