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A bit of an off topic: I've noticed a few older articles being posted around here lately and I must say I've enjoyed them very much. The insights, learning the
by adlpz 4y ago
A bit of an off topic: I've noticed a few older articles being posted around here lately and I must say I've enjoyed them very much.
The insights, learning their original contexts, and having hindsight due to the time passed makes them particularly valuable to me.
And I believe we can learn a lot by reading them. However most of what gets posted in HN and other aggregators is new content.
Is there any place where these sort of "most influential" articles of previous times can be found?
- fsflover 4y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16442888 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16442888
- adlpz 4y agoThanks! Funnily enough as soon as I wrote my comment I started hacking together something myself and... it's literally the same as that :D.
- jgust 4y agoIt's sad to see how many dead links there are for content that people felt was popular/important. Linkrot is such a major problem and doesn't get enough attention.
- marto1 4y agoYou can also try the first page of an empty search. That will show you the most popular articles of all time: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...