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?
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.
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.
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]
For a couple years I use to run a Wayback like newsletter similar to this, but got too busy with my weekly Hacker Newsletter (http://hackernewsletter.com) that I haven't touched it in a while.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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. "
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? :)
> The only problem is that you have to install something.
It was very relevant to point that. In my case, exactly this issue made impossible to me that I even try to use Dropbox. Is the install step actually still necessary?"
"Cloud" is notably absent from the comments. Dropbox kind of invented "the cloud" as most of us know it today (the term is older, but wasn't mainstream)
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[ 4.5 ms ] story [ 142 ms ] threadBut 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
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
Techmeme has this built-in (http://www.techmeme.com/110619/h1320), would be fun to run them side-by-side!
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.
What would be very interesting would be to take snapshots by time so you can see the flow of a story throughout the day.
Edit: found it, http://hnhistory.net
Just pinged Dan and Scott to find out the day HN started. I believe it would have been called Startup News then.
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
[1]http://www.waybackhn.com/?date=2006-10-09
[2]http://www.waybackhn.com/?date=2007-02-18
http://www.waybackhn.com/?date=2011-10-05
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2273870/Steve%20Jobs%20R...
Aaron Swartz: http://i.imgur.com/52ezERg.png
For a couple years I use to run a Wayback like newsletter similar to this, but got too busy with my weekly Hacker Newsletter (http://hackernewsletter.com) that I haven't touched it in a while.
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...
https://github.com/jondubin/Wayback-HN/blob/master/app/utils...
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=Arrington
http://blog.higg.im/2015/06/20/open-all-secure-https-hackern...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1398250
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.
It's available here: 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...
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.
Maybe I read this wrong or are you the one being cynical here? :)
It was very relevant to point that. In my case, exactly this issue made impossible to me that I even try to use Dropbox. Is the install step actually still necessary?"
This took the gold for me.
That would be pretty uplifting, imho.
It'd probably have to include even one of my comments. :-( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6824666 (I still can't believe it all worked out...)
Kudos for the dead simple interface.