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The number of one-year-old-plus postings here recently kind of puzzles me. They're often quite interesting, but isn't this Hacker News? Are we really living i

• gruseom 13y ago
  Generally speaking, the historical posts on HN are some of the most interesting. I wish there were more of them. They're also one of the more distinctive things about this site. At its best, people here are interested in a broad range of things—a range that extends backward in time as well as in other directions. It's a shallow intellect indeed that has no room for anything beyond the L1 cache of the moment.
• yarianluis 13y ago
  Hacker News isn't just strictly news anymore than the New York Times is strictly about New York. We do live in boring times. The 24/7 media cycle may have taught us otherwise. But day-to-day, not that much new events happens. The way I see Hacker News, it's a place for smart hackers to post interesting articles. If other hackers find the article interesting, that's all that matters.
  • obviouslygreen 13y ago
    Of course HN isn't specifically anything other than a repository of links. And if people find old articles interesting, that's great; like I said, a lot of them are to me as well. But there is so much else going on around the world that I don't see the point in rehashing three-year-old change-of-employment announcements. I'm not trying to incur the ire of the love-it-or-leave-it crowd, so I'll just leave it at that.
    • yarianluis 13y ago
      Fair enough.