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Show HN: Wayback HN, a cross between the Wayback Machine and Hacker News

503 points by dubin 11y ago

danso 11y ago
Not quite a featureset like Wayback Machine...in that going to a certain day will show you top stories ranked by cumulative votes since submission...rather than the algorithmic position, and number of votes received from that day...but that's presumably not available via the API. But even as just a list-by-day, it's a lot of fun to browse, especially going back many years [1]. What did you use to build it? [1] HN's first day, http://www.waybackhn.com/?date=2006-10-9 http://www.waybackhn.com/?date=2006-10-9 1. Y Combinator (ycombinator.com) 61 points by pg 3175 days ago | 18 comments 2. A Student's Guide to Startups (paulgraham.com) 16 points by phyllis 3175 days ago | 1 comment 3. Feld: Question Regarding NDAs (feld.com) 11 points by pg 3175 days ago | 1 comment 4. LikeBetter featured by BBC (bbc.co.uk) 10 points by frobnicate 3175 days ago | 0 comments 5. MySpace: Not a purely viral start (startup-review.com) 9 points by starklysnarky 3175 days ago | 1 comment 6. Salaries at VC-backed companies (blogs.com) 8 points by pg 3175 days ago | 3 comments 7. Google, YouTube acquisition announcement could come tonight (techcrunch.com) 7 points by perler 3175 days ago | 1 comment 8. Woz Interview: the early days of Apple (foundersatwork.com) 7 points by phyllis 3175 days ago | 1 comment 9. Best IRR ever? YouTube 1.65B... (techcrunch.com) 6 points by sama 3175 days ago | 3 comments 10. NYC Developer Dilemma (blogs.com) 5 points by onebeerdave 3175 days ago | 1 comment 11. A Story About Not Going IPO During The Bubble (usatoday.com) 5 points by starklysnarky 3175 days ago | 1 comment 12. The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn (paulgraham.com) 5 points by phyllis 3175 days ago | 1 comment 13. Wired: The Desktop is Dead (wired.com) 5 points by farmer 3175 days ago | 1 comment 14. Participation Inequality: Encouraging More Users to Contribute (useit.com) 5 points by frobnicate 3175 days ago | 1 comment 15. Sevin Rosen Unfunds - why? (gigaom.com) 5 points by phyllis 3175 days ago | 0 comments 16. Business Intelligence the Inkling Way: cool prediction markets software (360techblog.com) 4 points by perler 3175 days ago | 1 comment 17. Small is Beautiful: Building a Successful Company with Less Capital (zdnet.com) 4 points by pg 3175 days ago | 1 comment 18. weekendr: social network for the weekend (weekendr.com) 4 points by askjigga 3175 days ago | 0 comments 19. Voddler Raises $2.2M For Virtual Cable TV (thealarmclock.com) 3 points by farmer 3175 days ago | 1 comment 20. PhotoShow: Broadcast Photos to Cable TV (techcrunch.com) 3 points by frobnicate 3175 days ago | 1 comment 21. Will Silicon Light Illuminate the Future? (technologyreview.com) 2 points by pg 3175 days ago | 1 comment
- dubin 11y ago
  Thanks! Built with Flask, check out the source here: https://github.com/jondubin/HN-Wayback https://github.com/jondubin/HN-Wayback
- j_s 11y ago
  Check out http://hnrankings.info/ http://hnrankings.info/ for the moment-by-moment play-by-play for today's stories.
mmahemoff 11y ago
Cool! Techmeme has this built-in (http://www.techmeme.com/110619/h1320 http://www.techmeme.com/110619/h1320), would be fun to run them side-by-side!
elmar 11y ago
Great hack, Thanks
phatak-dev 11y ago
Cool
adventured 11y ago
This is very cool. I could lose a lot of time just casually browsing the random day link. One problem I ran into, is the "More" link at the bottom of any past date, links you back to the present date and shows you the next page of results for today instead of the next page of results for the past date in question.
- dubin 11y ago
  Thanks for checking it out! For the time being I've turned off the more button
nkozyra 11y ago
Missed opportunity at the Wayhack Machine, but interesting still. What would be very interesting would be to take snapshots by time so you can see the flow of a story throughout the day.
brador 11y ago
I'm sure there's another site that does this that was a show HN last year. It allowed hourly selection too... Edit: found it, http://hnhistory.net http://hnhistory.net
- LVB 11y ago
  That one only goes back a little more than a year. It also doesn't show vote/comment counts, something I quite like about this one.
  - brador 11y ago
    I agree. If the new one adds hourly it's the clear winner.
- samjc 11y ago
  Author of hnhistory.net here. Thanks for mentioning it. I didn't get any feedback back then. This will give me some motivation to work on it again. Mine actually scrapes hn... This was done before the api came out.
kevin 11y ago
Amazing! It was cool to see the day my company was acquired: http://www.waybackhn.com/?date=2011-4-25 http://www.waybackhn.com/?date=2011-4-25 Just pinged Dan and Scott to find out the day HN started. I believe it would have been called Startup News then.
- kevin 11y ago
  Just told me the first item submitted was Mon Oct 09 2006. http://www.waybackhn.com/?date=2006-10-09 http://www.waybackhn.com/?date=2006-10-09
  - kevin 11y ago
    Scott tells me that the launch date is Feb 19, 2007. Which is when its announced it on Reddit. http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/15gkq/startup_news_ycombinator_enters_the_social_news/ http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/15gkq/startup_ne... Here's what it looked like (maybe) then. http://www.waybackhn.com/?date=2007-02-19 http://www.waybackhn.com/?date=2007-02-19
    - vruiz 11y ago
      You can tell that there was some initial launch on 2006-10-09[1] then declines until there are almost no submissions during the following months until it starts to be active again on 2007-02-18[2] [1]http://www.waybackhn.com/?date=2006-10-09 http://www.waybackhn.com/?date=2006-10-09 [2]http://www.waybackhn.com/?date=2007-02-18 http://www.waybackhn.com/?date=2007-02-18
bsilvereagle 11y ago
It would be really useful if the links were replaced with archive.org links from the same year. A lot of links are now dead.
libria 11y ago
Is more granularity possible? There was a moment on 10/05/2011 where the entire front page was Steve Jobs. http://www.waybackhn.com/?date=2011-10-05 http://www.waybackhn.com/?date=2011-10-05
- GigabyteCoin 11y ago
  Reminds me to waking up to the Snowden revelations and reading HN.
- s-phi-nl 11y ago
  I have a screenshot of that which I could upload to Dropbox if anyone wants.
  - justplay 11y ago
    yes, share it.
    - flyingyeti 11y ago
      I saved a PDF, though it doesn't have the right colors: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2273870/Steve%20Jobs%20RIP%20Hacker%20News.pdf https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2273870/Steve%20Jobs%20R...
      - ahmetmsft 11y ago
        Links don't work on this.
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    - fletchowns 11y ago
      Steve Jobs: http://i.imgur.com/GWqCE06.png http://i.imgur.com/GWqCE06.png Aaron Swartz: http://i.imgur.com/52ezERg.png http://i.imgur.com/52ezERg.png
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minimaxir 11y ago
It's worth nothing that according to the source code, this uses the Algolia HN API and not the official HN API, which is a smart move because the official API still doesn't have bulk requests. As a slightly off-topic aside, I have a GitHub repo showing how to download all Hacker News stories and comments using the Algolia API: https://github.com/minimaxir/get-all-hacker-news-submissions-comments https://github.com/minimaxir/get-all-hacker-news-submissions...
f055 11y ago
Well this is just awesome! Gonna try and use it often.
amelius 11y ago
One important question: does it make a single snapshot at a certain moment during the day, or does it take multiple snapshots during a day, and combine the most highly rated articles into an ordered list?
- minimaxir 11y ago
  The code simply asks the Algolia API "Give me the Top 30 Stories from 12AM to 11:59PM of the specified day." https://github.com/jondubin/Wayback-HN/blob/master/app/utils.py#L86 https://github.com/jondubin/Wayback-HN/blob/master/app/utils...
FaisalRashid 11y ago
Hey Guyz, from where I can download the HN software/theme?
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- findjashua 11y ago
  right click -> view page source
- cmdrfred 11y ago
  Protip: Refrain from pluralizing things with the letter Z if you would like to be taken seriously.
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xena 11y ago
It would be interesting to see if someone else made something like this for Reddit and Slashdot.
lucisferre 11y ago
Looks like the trolling started right from day 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=Arrington https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=Arrington
thedaveoflife 11y ago
Poking around on here reminded me that nickb used to be everywhere and then disappeared. It also reminded me that almost everyday we see well thought out predictions on here that are almost all going to be wrong.
- Houshalter 11y ago
  He created an AGI slack group a year or two ago and was active on it. Then he just disappeared. No one has been able to contact him. We've always wondered what happened to him.
  - vmorgulis 11y ago
    https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=nickb https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=nickb
vishnuks 11y ago
https://hn.algolia.com https://hn.algolia.com have the same functionality.
- getdavidhiggins 11y ago
  For a more real time experience, I made this bookmarklet: http://blog.higg.im/2015/06/20/open-all-secure-https-hackernew-links-in-one-fell-swoop/ http://blog.higg.im/2015/06/20/open-all-secure-https-hackern...
DeBraid 11y ago
Amazing. I found the perfect article from 5 years ago thanking PG for making HN so great. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1398250 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1398250
vmorgulis 11y ago
Amazing. I love the Steve Jobs PDF (from flyingyeti). Is there a place where we can find all the HN stuff? Does someone collect them? I'm also curious about nickb. He is mentionned regularly.
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- vmorgulis 11y ago
  I start collecting all these links (about tools and history of hn). It's available here: https://github.com/vmorgulys/around-hn/blob/master/readme.md https://github.com/vmorgulys/around-hn/blob/master/readme.md I wonder if it's not possible to keep some of the best tools alive somewhere in a VM or just in a scraped HTML version...
davesque 11y ago
Wow, very cool. I love seeing the leading stories from each year. It kind of reminds me how the industry has evolved.
tacone 11y ago
Very nice, could you avoid resetting the date when the user changes the step size (year/month/day)? Also a datepicker would be nice.
- dubin 11y ago
  Both are planned features!
rkuykendall-com 11y ago
This is so cool. I clicked random month a few times and found the Dropbox launch: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 A killer feature would be to change submitted links to wayback links for the submitted date. I'd love to see a bit of what the commenters are talking about.
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- mkaziz 11y ago
  Oh wow, the cynical comments are just too much. That certainly gave me some perspective!
  - gphilip 11y ago
    What cynical comments? I read most (or all) of them as positive and encouraging.
    - mkaziz 11y ago
      First paragraph on the top comment is very representative: "The only problem is that you have to install something. See, it's not the same as USB drive. Most corporate laptops are locked and you can't install anything on them. That's gonna be the problem. Also, another point where your USB comparison fails is that USB works in places where you don't have internet access. "
      - r0naa 11y ago
        All I see is one person expressing their reservations, which I think is quite legitimate given the novelty that Drew's YC app was at the time. Either way how is that a bad thing? Feedback is crucial at such an early stage. Maybe I read this wrong or are you the one being cynical here? :)
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talles 11y ago
Filtered by Year, than First. How nostalgic seeing news like Google buying YouTube or blog posts about MySpace. Kudos for the dead simple interface.
joshrotenberg 11y ago
No stories from 2016 Now make the Wayforward version!
waterlesscloud 11y ago
From April 10, 2012. Story titled - Instagram is "worth" more than the New York Times Comment - "Would you rather own one of the most established news institutions in the modern world or a 2 year old photo sharing startup? How is this even a question?!" That's one of those questions where that looks a lot different at different times. :-)
shiggerino 11y ago
I'd suggest changing the orange colour. Not because I care in the slightest about the YC trademark, but it's still nice to get a positive indication of which site I'm looking at. For example, most of the Yotsuba archivers seem to follow this convention.
jmkni 11y ago
Nice! The Silk Road raid comments make fascinating reading, in retrospect - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6482992 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6482992 Also, I found this gem on a comment page regarding Julian Assange seeking asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy: I really don't think that the Metropolitan Police is going to put officers outside the Ecuador Assembly 24/7 just in case Julian Assange leaves. It just doesn't sound like a good use of the officers' time. - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4134362 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4134362 That was 1095 days ago.
brymaster 11y ago
This is like RewindHN.com (created by user https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kami8845 https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kami8845) before it bit the dust. It's open source: https://github.com/doda/rewindhn https://github.com/doda/rewindhn
robot 11y ago
I hit this one on a random click: You're just the founder http://steveblank.com/2010/05/20/you%E2%80%99re-just-the-founder/ http://steveblank.com/2010/05/20/you%E2%80%99re-just-the-fou... It should be unlucky for the VC who is in SB's curse list :)
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domador 11y ago
It seems there are now several sites that provide this highly desirable service. Good! (Shameless plug: Here's the one I made a few years ago:) http://hhn.domador.net/ http://hhn.domador.net/
dbbolton 11y ago
Why I love this: there have been a handful times where I vaguely remember a recent post from HN that I want to revisit but I don't remember enough of the exact title to find it by the Algolia search or Google, and can't find it by simply going through the pages (perhaps due to the sorting algorithm).
- premachb 11y ago
  Pocket (https://getpocket.com/ https://getpocket.com/) is great for that. If I see a great article that I don't have time to read now I usually just pocket it.
pikachu_is_cool 11y ago
"Mobile is a dud" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4855 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4855 Read the first comment. Boy have times changed.
sprokolopolis 11y ago
Really loving this. I hit random and saw an Ask YC thread for Duck Duck Go, my search engine of choice. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=315142 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=315142
datacog 11y ago
This is awesome. Very funny first comment So, just to see how hard it is to make the longest span between article and comment :)
throwaway41597 11y ago
This is great. It seems that the comment counts are off though: go to [0] and look at the top story. It shows 18 comments but [1] only has 15. [0]: http://www.waybackhn.com/?date=2006-10-9 http://www.waybackhn.com/?date=2006-10-9 [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1
- dubin 11y ago
  I think part of the discrepancy is comments that are marked dead, which might be getting counted by the API.
  - throwaway41597 11y ago
    I believe there is more to it: http://www.waybackhn.com/?date=2009-9 http://www.waybackhn.com/?date=2009-9 shows 14 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=818157 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=818157 has 87.
tehwalrus 11y ago
I am now confused about what year it is, what has recently launched and who has just died. Good job!
cqcn1991 11y ago
My god, I was just thinking about creating the exact same thing for HN, and here I found this.
samjc 11y ago
I made something like this a while ago, and it didn't get nearly as much attention... What made this a "success" on hn compared to mine? http://hnhistory.net http://hnhistory.net Also on GitHub: https://github.com/SCastaneda/hnhistory https://github.com/SCastaneda/hnhistory
stockkid 11y ago
It'd be more user friendly if 'prev' and 'next' button are next to each other. I had fun using this!

503 points by dubin 11y ago

danso 11y ago

Not quite a featureset like Wayback Machine...in that going to a certain day will show you top stories ranked by cumulative votes since submission...rather than the algorithmic position, and number of votes received from that day...but that's presumably not available via the API. But even as just a list-by-day, it's a lot of fun to browse, especially going back many years [1]. What did you use to build it? [1] HN's first day, http://www.waybackhn.com/?date=2006-10-9 http://www.waybackhn.com/?date=2006-10-9 1. Y Combinator (ycombinator.com) 61 points by pg 3175 days ago | 18 comments 2. A Student's Guide to Startups (paulgraham.com) 16 points by phyllis 3175 days ago | 1 comment 3. Feld: Question Regarding NDAs (feld.com) 11 points by pg 3175 days ago | 1 comment 4. LikeBetter featured by BBC (bbc.co.uk) 10 points by frobnicate 3175 days ago | 0 comments 5. MySpace: Not a purely viral start (startup-review.com) 9 points by starklysnarky 3175 days ago | 1 comment 6. Salaries at VC-backed companies (blogs.com) 8 points by pg 3175 days ago | 3 comments 7. Google, YouTube acquisition announcement could come tonight (techcrunch.com) 7 points by perler 3175 days ago | 1 comment 8. Woz Interview: the early days of Apple (foundersatwork.com) 7 points by phyllis 3175 days ago | 1 comment 9. Best IRR ever? YouTube 1.65B... (techcrunch.com) 6 points by sama 3175 days ago | 3 comments 10. NYC Developer Dilemma (blogs.com) 5 points by onebeerdave 3175 days ago | 1 comment 11. A Story About Not Going IPO During The Bubble (usatoday.com) 5 points by starklysnarky 3175 days ago | 1 comment 12. The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn (paulgraham.com) 5 points by phyllis 3175 days ago | 1 comment 13. Wired: The Desktop is Dead (wired.com) 5 points by farmer 3175 days ago | 1 comment 14. Participation Inequality: Encouraging More Users to Contribute (useit.com) 5 points by frobnicate 3175 days ago | 1 comment 15. Sevin Rosen Unfunds - why? (gigaom.com) 5 points by phyllis 3175 days ago | 0 comments 16. Business Intelligence the Inkling Way: cool prediction markets software (360techblog.com) 4 points by perler 3175 days ago | 1 comment 17. Small is Beautiful: Building a Successful Company with Less Capital (zdnet.com) 4 points by pg 3175 days ago | 1 comment 18. weekendr: social network for the weekend (weekendr.com) 4 points by askjigga 3175 days ago | 0 comments 19. Voddler Raises $2.2M For Virtual Cable TV (thealarmclock.com) 3 points by farmer 3175 days ago | 1 comment 20. PhotoShow: Broadcast Photos to Cable TV (techcrunch.com) 3 points by frobnicate 3175 days ago | 1 comment 21. Will Silicon Light Illuminate the Future? (technologyreview.com) 2 points by pg 3175 days ago | 1 comment

dubin 11y ago
Thanks! Built with Flask, check out the source here: https://github.com/jondubin/HN-Wayback https://github.com/jondubin/HN-Wayback
j_s 11y ago
Check out http://hnrankings.info/ http://hnrankings.info/ for the moment-by-moment play-by-play for today's stories.

mmahemoff 11y ago

Cool! Techmeme has this built-in (http://www.techmeme.com/110619/h1320 http://www.techmeme.com/110619/h1320), would be fun to run them side-by-side!

elmar 11y ago

Great hack, Thanks

phatak-dev 11y ago

Cool

adventured 11y ago

This is very cool. I could lose a lot of time just casually browsing the random day link. One problem I ran into, is the "More" link at the bottom of any past date, links you back to the present date and shows you the next page of results for today instead of the next page of results for the past date in question.

dubin 11y ago
Thanks for checking it out! For the time being I've turned off the more button

nkozyra 11y ago

Missed opportunity at the Wayhack Machine, but interesting still. What would be very interesting would be to take snapshots by time so you can see the flow of a story throughout the day.

brador 11y ago

I'm sure there's another site that does this that was a show HN last year. It allowed hourly selection too... Edit: found it, http://hnhistory.net http://hnhistory.net

LVB 11y ago
That one only goes back a little more than a year. It also doesn't show vote/comment counts, something I quite like about this one.
- brador 11y ago
  I agree. If the new one adds hourly it's the clear winner.
samjc 11y ago
Author of hnhistory.net here. Thanks for mentioning it. I didn't get any feedback back then. This will give me some motivation to work on it again. Mine actually scrapes hn... This was done before the api came out.

kevin 11y ago

Amazing! It was cool to see the day my company was acquired: http://www.waybackhn.com/?date=2011-4-25 http://www.waybackhn.com/?date=2011-4-25 Just pinged Dan and Scott to find out the day HN started. I believe it would have been called Startup News then.

kevin 11y ago
Just told me the first item submitted was Mon Oct 09 2006. http://www.waybackhn.com/?date=2006-10-09 http://www.waybackhn.com/?date=2006-10-09
- kevin 11y ago
  Scott tells me that the launch date is Feb 19, 2007. Which is when its announced it on Reddit. http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/15gkq/startup_news_ycombinator_enters_the_social_news/ http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/15gkq/startup_ne... Here's what it looked like (maybe) then. http://www.waybackhn.com/?date=2007-02-19 http://www.waybackhn.com/?date=2007-02-19
  - vruiz 11y ago
    You can tell that there was some initial launch on 2006-10-09[1] then declines until there are almost no submissions during the following months until it starts to be active again on 2007-02-18[2] [1]http://www.waybackhn.com/?date=2006-10-09 http://www.waybackhn.com/?date=2006-10-09 [2]http://www.waybackhn.com/?date=2007-02-18 http://www.waybackhn.com/?date=2007-02-18

bsilvereagle 11y ago

It would be really useful if the links were replaced with archive.org links from the same year. A lot of links are now dead.

libria 11y ago

Is more granularity possible? There was a moment on 10/05/2011 where the entire front page was Steve Jobs. http://www.waybackhn.com/?date=2011-10-05 http://www.waybackhn.com/?date=2011-10-05

GigabyteCoin 11y ago
Reminds me to waking up to the Snowden revelations and reading HN.
s-phi-nl 11y ago
I have a screenshot of that which I could upload to Dropbox if anyone wants.
- justplay 11y ago
  yes, share it.
  - flyingyeti 11y ago
    I saved a PDF, though it doesn't have the right colors: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2273870/Steve%20Jobs%20RIP%20Hacker%20News.pdf https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2273870/Steve%20Jobs%20R...
    - ahmetmsft 11y ago
      Links don't work on this.
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  - fletchowns 11y ago
    Steve Jobs: http://i.imgur.com/GWqCE06.png http://i.imgur.com/GWqCE06.png Aaron Swartz: http://i.imgur.com/52ezERg.png http://i.imgur.com/52ezERg.png
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minimaxir 11y ago

It's worth nothing that according to the source code, this uses the Algolia HN API and not the official HN API, which is a smart move because the official API still doesn't have bulk requests. As a slightly off-topic aside, I have a GitHub repo showing how to download all Hacker News stories and comments using the Algolia API: https://github.com/minimaxir/get-all-hacker-news-submissions-comments https://github.com/minimaxir/get-all-hacker-news-submissions...

f055 11y ago

Well this is just awesome! Gonna try and use it often.

amelius 11y ago

One important question: does it make a single snapshot at a certain moment during the day, or does it take multiple snapshots during a day, and combine the most highly rated articles into an ordered list?

minimaxir 11y ago
The code simply asks the Algolia API "Give me the Top 30 Stories from 12AM to 11:59PM of the specified day." https://github.com/jondubin/Wayback-HN/blob/master/app/utils.py#L86 https://github.com/jondubin/Wayback-HN/blob/master/app/utils...

FaisalRashid 11y ago

Hey Guyz, from where I can download the HN software/theme?

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findjashua 11y ago
right click -> view page source
cmdrfred 11y ago
Protip: Refrain from pluralizing things with the letter Z if you would like to be taken seriously.

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xena 11y ago

It would be interesting to see if someone else made something like this for Reddit and Slashdot.

lucisferre 11y ago

Looks like the trolling started right from day 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=Arrington https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=Arrington

thedaveoflife 11y ago

Poking around on here reminded me that nickb used to be everywhere and then disappeared. It also reminded me that almost everyday we see well thought out predictions on here that are almost all going to be wrong.

Houshalter 11y ago
He created an AGI slack group a year or two ago and was active on it. Then he just disappeared. No one has been able to contact him. We've always wondered what happened to him.
- vmorgulis 11y ago
  https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=nickb https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=nickb

vishnuks 11y ago

https://hn.algolia.com https://hn.algolia.com have the same functionality.

getdavidhiggins 11y ago
For a more real time experience, I made this bookmarklet: http://blog.higg.im/2015/06/20/open-all-secure-https-hackernew-links-in-one-fell-swoop/ http://blog.higg.im/2015/06/20/open-all-secure-https-hackern...

DeBraid 11y ago

Amazing. I found the perfect article from 5 years ago thanking PG for making HN so great. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1398250 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1398250

vmorgulis 11y ago

Amazing. I love the Steve Jobs PDF (from flyingyeti). Is there a place where we can find all the HN stuff? Does someone collect them? I'm also curious about nickb. He is mentionned regularly.

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vmorgulis 11y ago
I start collecting all these links (about tools and history of hn). It's available here: https://github.com/vmorgulys/around-hn/blob/master/readme.md https://github.com/vmorgulys/around-hn/blob/master/readme.md I wonder if it's not possible to keep some of the best tools alive somewhere in a VM or just in a scraped HTML version...

davesque 11y ago

Wow, very cool. I love seeing the leading stories from each year. It kind of reminds me how the industry has evolved.

tacone 11y ago

Very nice, could you avoid resetting the date when the user changes the step size (year/month/day)? Also a datepicker would be nice.

dubin 11y ago
Both are planned features!

rkuykendall-com 11y ago

This is so cool. I clicked random month a few times and found the Dropbox launch: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 A killer feature would be to change submitted links to wayback links for the submitted date. I'd love to see a bit of what the commenters are talking about.

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mkaziz 11y ago
Oh wow, the cynical comments are just too much. That certainly gave me some perspective!
- gphilip 11y ago
  What cynical comments? I read most (or all) of them as positive and encouraging.
  - mkaziz 11y ago
    First paragraph on the top comment is very representative: "The only problem is that you have to install something. See, it's not the same as USB drive. Most corporate laptops are locked and you can't install anything on them. That's gonna be the problem. Also, another point where your USB comparison fails is that USB works in places where you don't have internet access. "
    - r0naa 11y ago
      All I see is one person expressing their reservations, which I think is quite legitimate given the novelty that Drew's YC app was at the time. Either way how is that a bad thing? Feedback is crucial at such an early stage. Maybe I read this wrong or are you the one being cynical here? :)
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talles 11y ago

Filtered by Year, than First. How nostalgic seeing news like Google buying YouTube or blog posts about MySpace. Kudos for the dead simple interface.

joshrotenberg 11y ago

No stories from 2016 Now make the Wayforward version!

waterlesscloud 11y ago

From April 10, 2012. Story titled - Instagram is "worth" more than the New York Times Comment - "Would you rather own one of the most established news institutions in the modern world or a 2 year old photo sharing startup? How is this even a question?!" That's one of those questions where that looks a lot different at different times. :-)

shiggerino 11y ago

I'd suggest changing the orange colour. Not because I care in the slightest about the YC trademark, but it's still nice to get a positive indication of which site I'm looking at. For example, most of the Yotsuba archivers seem to follow this convention.

jmkni 11y ago

Nice! The Silk Road raid comments make fascinating reading, in retrospect - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6482992 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6482992 Also, I found this gem on a comment page regarding Julian Assange seeking asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy: I really don't think that the Metropolitan Police is going to put officers outside the Ecuador Assembly 24/7 just in case Julian Assange leaves. It just doesn't sound like a good use of the officers' time. - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4134362 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4134362 That was 1095 days ago.

brymaster 11y ago

This is like RewindHN.com (created by user https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kami8845 https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kami8845) before it bit the dust. It's open source: https://github.com/doda/rewindhn https://github.com/doda/rewindhn

robot 11y ago

I hit this one on a random click: You're just the founder http://steveblank.com/2010/05/20/you%E2%80%99re-just-the-founder/ http://steveblank.com/2010/05/20/you%E2%80%99re-just-the-fou... It should be unlucky for the VC who is in SB's curse list :)

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domador 11y ago

It seems there are now several sites that provide this highly desirable service. Good! (Shameless plug: Here's the one I made a few years ago:) http://hhn.domador.net/ http://hhn.domador.net/

dbbolton 11y ago

Why I love this: there have been a handful times where I vaguely remember a recent post from HN that I want to revisit but I don't remember enough of the exact title to find it by the Algolia search or Google, and can't find it by simply going through the pages (perhaps due to the sorting algorithm).

premachb 11y ago
Pocket (https://getpocket.com/ https://getpocket.com/) is great for that. If I see a great article that I don't have time to read now I usually just pocket it.

pikachu_is_cool 11y ago

"Mobile is a dud" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4855 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4855 Read the first comment. Boy have times changed.

sprokolopolis 11y ago

Really loving this. I hit random and saw an Ask YC thread for Duck Duck Go, my search engine of choice. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=315142 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=315142

datacog 11y ago

This is awesome. Very funny first comment So, just to see how hard it is to make the longest span between article and comment :)

throwaway41597 11y ago

This is great. It seems that the comment counts are off though: go to [0] and look at the top story. It shows 18 comments but [1] only has 15. [0]: http://www.waybackhn.com/?date=2006-10-9 http://www.waybackhn.com/?date=2006-10-9 [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1

dubin 11y ago
I think part of the discrepancy is comments that are marked dead, which might be getting counted by the API.
- throwaway41597 11y ago
  I believe there is more to it: http://www.waybackhn.com/?date=2009-9 http://www.waybackhn.com/?date=2009-9 shows 14 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=818157 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=818157 has 87.

tehwalrus 11y ago

I am now confused about what year it is, what has recently launched and who has just died. Good job!

cqcn1991 11y ago

My god, I was just thinking about creating the exact same thing for HN, and here I found this.

samjc 11y ago

I made something like this a while ago, and it didn't get nearly as much attention... What made this a "success" on hn compared to mine? http://hnhistory.net http://hnhistory.net Also on GitHub: https://github.com/SCastaneda/hnhistory https://github.com/SCastaneda/hnhistory

stockkid 11y ago

It'd be more user friendly if 'prev' and 'next' button are next to each other. I had fun using this!