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I love Wikipedia's "Current Events" portal so much that I have built a search engine for it: https://pastevents.org/ https://pastevents.org/ PastEvents is my e
by p-e-w 4y ago
I love Wikipedia's "Current Events" portal so much that I have built a search engine for it: https://pastevents.org/ https://pastevents.org/
PastEvents is my entry point to the news nowadays. It updates daily and I can look at source material and relevant articles linked directly from the event, as well as search the past for related events to understand chronology.
- nicklaf 4y agoVery cool! I really like the date range selector. I can see this being very useful for getting a clear picture about what the world thought about certain topics before they blew up in certain directions in more recent times.
- dontchooseanick 4y agoComments also promoting / proposing Wikipedia's Current Events [1] [2] [3] [4] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33417715 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33417715 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33417336 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33417336 [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33417454 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33417454 [4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33417439 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33417439
- tasuki 4y agoYou posted this comment four times under this Ask HN. Twice in this thread under nicklaf's comment. Why? (Yes, Wikipedia's Current events portal is great)
- dontchooseanick 4y agoawfully sorry, I wanted to 1. underline that it's a shared opinion and 2. notice others that the "Current Events" portal was commented here. I posted the exact same comment in all 4 positions talking about Wikipedia - if anyone feels offended or spammed just ler me know and I'll delete this superflous cross-reference