3 ms·
This is an HN perennial favourite, with 39 submissions. Among the significant discussions: 8 years ago, 32 comments <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=122
by dredmorbius 2y ago
This is an HN perennial favourite, with 39 submissions. Among the significant discussions:
8 years ago, 32 comments <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12283614 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12283614>
8 years ago, 61 comments <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13762614 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13762614>
3 years ago, 49 comments <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28981275 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28981275>
14 years ago, 46 comments <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2079473 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2079473>
6 years ago, 33 comments <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18987188 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18987188>
11 years ago, 11 comments <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5660763 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5660763>
10 years ago, 23 comments <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8681061 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8681061>
14 years ago, 23 comments <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1205500 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1205500>
16 years ago, 15 comments <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=191212 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=191212>
15 years ago, 10 comments <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=723361 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=723361>
16 years ago, 12 comments <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=311454 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=311454>
17 years ago, 5 comments <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31834 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31834>
- ycombinete 2y agoEqually remarkable: there are Tinyurl links to Amazon books in the post from 17 years ago that still resolve to the books’ page on Amazon!
- dredmorbius 2y agoThe remarkable part is that TinyURL still works. Amazon's book look-up is by ISBN, which is fixed at time of assignment, and would be unlikely to change. You can look up the ISBN on any similarly indexed site. Wikipedia's Special:Booksources page is one of those, and points at other resources including Google Books, Open Library, Amazon (recursion!), and numerous others: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources?isbn=0393316041 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources?isbn=03933...>