[HN Gopher] Show HN: Timeless articles posted on Hacker News, wr...
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Show HN: Timeless articles posted on Hacker News, written 1321 to
2021
Author : phgn
Score : 108 points
Date : 2021-12-18 16:00 UTC (7 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (hn.lindylearn.io)
(TXT) w3m dump (hn.lindylearn.io)
| thunderbong wrote:
| Hey! This is really well made.
|
| May I ask what the tech stack is?
| phgn wrote:
| Thank you! Most of the data can be queried and aggregated
| through the HN BigQuery dataset [0], and I run a periodic
| Node.js function to poll more recent posts from the API. The
| filtered posts are hosted in Firestore for most of the pages +
| Relevance.ai for the search. The frontend uses Next.js and the
| original HN CSS + small tweaks like the year display.
|
| [0]
| https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/product/y-combi...
| camdv wrote:
| Aren't these really "timed"?
| phgn wrote:
| What do you mean? Yes the articles itself are old, but the
| discussions around them are new. Which is the interesting part
| -- "timeless" content that's relevant not just the week it is
| published.
| phgn wrote:
| Hey everyone! I love how we often talk about older classic
| articles here (posts with the year in the title like [0]). I
| haven't seen that practice on other sites, which is a shame. For
| me these posts often lead to the most valuable discussions.
|
| So I built this small website [1] to browse and search across all
| timeless HN posts [2]. The idea is to make use of the immense
| library we're all curating by posting and commenting here. What
| you can do with the site:
|
| * Browse the best links of all time, according to HN:
| https://hn.lindylearn.io/best
|
| * Search for resources for example on "career advice"
| (prioritising old content that's still reposted frequently):
| https://hn.lindylearn.io/search?q=career%20advice
|
| * See the best links per publishing year. For example, which
| articles from 1995 do we still talk about?
| https://hn.lindylearn.io/years/1995
|
| * What are the best posts on any website?
| https://hn.lindylearn.io/from?site=paulgraham.com
|
| It was a quick project to put together, but I hope it's somewhat
| useful not just for myself. Halfway through I realised there's
| some prior art for it [3], but I think this site adds enough to
| make it worthwhile. I'm curious to hear what you think.
|
| [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29590667
|
| [1] Named "Lindy Hacker News" after the Lindy Effect
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
|
| [2] It indexes all HN posts with a year in the title that have
| more than 40 upvotes, where the article publish date is >= 2
| years before the post date (results in about 10k posts). Articles
| are ranked by the summed score across all posts for the url.
|
| [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16442888
| gen_greyface wrote:
| Something similar
|
| http://jsomers.net/hn/
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16442888
| phgn wrote:
| A few people must have had this idea over the years. HN is the
| only website I know where old articles get regularly reposted.
|
| I actually discovered http://jsomers.net/hn/ while building
| this site, as it turns up when you search for "hacker news".
| It's a bit different so I think both tools are useful.
| j4hdufd8 wrote:
| > HN is the only website I know where old articles get
| regularly reposted.
|
| I digress, but have you opened your Facebook feed recently?
| :-)
| phgn wrote:
| I have not, but I would imagine it to be full of news?
| That's not the case for you?
| 1123581321 wrote:
| Interesting project. 1864 seems to be the first year that has two
| completely different items meaningfully discussed.
| nothrowaways wrote:
| A computer scientist might find it confusing, 1321-2021 is not
| the date range on HN :)
| phgn wrote:
| Yes, to be precise the year refers to the original date the
| text was written. Hopefully it has not totally changed its
| meaning since then.
| jareklupinski wrote:
| https://hn.lindylearn.io/years/1321 for anyone else hunting
|
| for some reason it doesnt show up in the decade view
| https://hn.lindylearn.io/years/1320
| phgn wrote:
| Oh, https://hn.lindylearn.io/years/1320 only shows things
| written exactly 1320, there is no "decade view" right now.
| That's an interesting idea though, maybe I can put it at
| https://hn.lindylearn.io/years/132X.
|
| Edit: Done now, for example visit
| https://hn.lindylearn.io/years/198x for the best links of
| 1980 - 1989. Only works with one X for performance.
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