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And that's only the AD, if we add old articles for the last century from other sources, the HN will be flooded over. But would be they news?

• segfaultbuserr 5y ago
  > if we add old articles for the last century from other sources, the HN will be flooded over. HN has been doing it for... I think a decade already? The situation so far looks good to me. * “Corn-Pone Opinions” by Mark Twain (1901) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10822133 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10822133 127 points, 56 comments * Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements (1908) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19968114 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19968114 798 points, 147 comments * G.K. Chesterton: The fallacy of success (1909) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6512288 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6512288 198 points, 97 comments * The Basic Problem of Democracy (1919) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21893486 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21893486 206 points, 189 comments * Why I Quit Being So Accommodating (1922) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14418877 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14418877 866 points, 316 comments * Why I Never Hire Brilliant Men (1924) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7437643 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7437643 387 points, 264 comments * War Is a Racket (1933) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22012255 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22012255 336 points, 181 comments * A Mathematical Theory of Communication (1948) [pdf] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23035107 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23035107 197 points, 39 comments * Claude Shannon Demonstrates Machine Learning (1952) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25919006 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25919006 209 points, 51 comments * Three-dimensional model of electricity consumption in Manchester (1954) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25959571 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25959571 135 points, 31 comments * Kurt Gödel's Letter to John von Neumann (1956) [pdf] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19281633 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19281633 183 points, 85 comments * An Algebraic Language for the Manipulation of Symbolic Expressions (1958) [pdf] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14885779 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14885779 171 points, 12 comments * America's Cult of Ignorance (1980) [pdf] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14778856 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14778856 169 points, 113 comments * How does a gas pump know to shut itself off? (1981) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24741029 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24741029 384 points, 390 comments * Will cable TV be invaded by commercials? (1981) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22977448 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22977448 288 points, 354 comments * Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond? (1982) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4535611 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4535611 273 points, 229 comments