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

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.