Oh yeah, plus I keep hearing about how the quality of HN has dropped. I imagine you could selectively pull stuff from back in the day, apply the same popularity

Oh yeah, plus I keep hearing about how the quality of HN has dropped. I imagine you could selectively pull stuff from back in the day, apply the same popularity criteria to today, and compare the quality of what comes up. It's small curiosities like this I want to learn how to pull off.