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I have been told if you limit yourself to reading newspapers that are a week old for awhile, you will quit reading newspapers all together.

dredmorbius 5y ago
Sometimes. Or you may find that letting the news settle and digest for a week helps sort out what's more relevant. As an interesting experiment, you can browse some websites in a similar fashion. Searching HN for highest-rated items, limited to the past week or month, for example: Top / past week: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastWeek&page=0&prefix=false&query=&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastWeek&page=0&prefix=fal... Top / past month: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=false&query=&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=fa... (Arbitrary time periods can also be specified.) You can also use the "Front" links to look back in time. I suggesty at least one year, and preferably 5 or 10. 5 years ago today: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2016-10-08 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2016-10-08 10 years ago today: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2011-10-08 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2011-10-08 15 years ago today: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-08 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-08 (Time didn't exist back then, you might want to content yourself with 14 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2007-10-08 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2007-10-08) There's no way to automate skipping back 5/10/15 years on the site itself, but a simple shell script would do that: for i in {5..15..5} do echo "https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=$( date -d "$i years ago" +%Y-%m-%d )" done Feed that to a browser or whatever, as you wish. Reddit affords a similar capability by specifing a null search for "top" or "best" posts over a week, month, or year. Run that against a subreddit or user. Or a specific search term or URL for that matter.
- dredmorbius 5y ago
  And ... it turns out that 15 years ago now produces results: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-09 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-09
  - ipaddr 5y ago
    Super interesting article on VC and the New York startup scene in 2006. https://avc.com/2006/10/the_nyc_develop/ https://avc.com/2006/10/the_nyc_develop/
- hutzlibu 5y ago
  Wow, that is helpful. Because even very interesting links have a quite short live on the front page, to be replaced with generic news, that makes you miss out if you do not check everyday.
HWR_14 5y ago
I mean, the point of a newspaper is to learn what's going on. So, yeah, if you only read old newspapers you'll stop reading them. If you only get papers in a language you don't speak you'll also rapidly stop. Heck, start watching your favorite late night shows on a one-week delay and you'll have the same thing happen.

dredmorbius 5y ago

Sometimes. Or you may find that letting the news settle and digest for a week helps sort out what's more relevant. As an interesting experiment, you can browse some websites in a similar fashion. Searching HN for highest-rated items, limited to the past week or month, for example: Top / past week: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastWeek&page=0&prefix=false&query=&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastWeek&page=0&prefix=fal... Top / past month: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=false&query=&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=fa... (Arbitrary time periods can also be specified.) You can also use the "Front" links to look back in time. I suggesty at least one year, and preferably 5 or 10. 5 years ago today: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2016-10-08 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2016-10-08 10 years ago today: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2011-10-08 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2011-10-08 15 years ago today: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-08 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-08 (Time didn't exist back then, you might want to content yourself with 14 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2007-10-08 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2007-10-08) There's no way to automate skipping back 5/10/15 years on the site itself, but a simple shell script would do that: for i in {5..15..5} do echo "https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=$( date -d "$i years ago" +%Y-%m-%d )" done Feed that to a browser or whatever, as you wish. Reddit affords a similar capability by specifing a null search for "top" or "best" posts over a week, month, or year. Run that against a subreddit or user. Or a specific search term or URL for that matter.

dredmorbius 5y ago
And ... it turns out that 15 years ago now produces results: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-09 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-09
- ipaddr 5y ago
  Super interesting article on VC and the New York startup scene in 2006. https://avc.com/2006/10/the_nyc_develop/ https://avc.com/2006/10/the_nyc_develop/
hutzlibu 5y ago
Wow, that is helpful. Because even very interesting links have a quite short live on the front page, to be replaced with generic news, that makes you miss out if you do not check everyday.

HWR_14 5y ago

I mean, the point of a newspaper is to learn what's going on. So, yeah, if you only read old newspapers you'll stop reading them. If you only get papers in a language you don't speak you'll also rapidly stop. Heck, start watching your favorite late night shows on a one-week delay and you'll have the same thing happen.