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The front page of HN almost exactly 5 years ago
- jamesbritt 14y agoWow. Looks very much like the front page today! :) You posted the wrong link.
- mikeroher 14y ago"Innovative New Rails Host: Online IDE, Web Console, Instantly Live" It's been five years since the launch of Heroku?
- dkulchenko 14y agoJune 2007: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroku http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroku
- mintplant 14y ago> Heroku is owned by Salesforce.com. Well, you learn something new every day.
- thinkbohemian 14y agoI work at Heroku and sometimes forget sometimes. They're very supportive and very hands-off.
- Xcelerate 14y agoInteresting how the articles on the HN homepage are almost timeless. Many of those articles I find just as interesting as the one's posted on today's homepage (perhaps more interesting since there's more programming and less consumer tech news).
- buckwild 14y agoTotally true. I caught myself exploring some of the "old" links myself.
- tucson 14y agoI created HnEasy.com a few weeks ago. My objective was to give an easy way to find the best Hacker news posts and comments since 2007. I use it to catch up on hacker news every few days. I hope you find it of value.
- aviv 14y agoA lot of good content is buried in archives of good blogs/news sites, and popular aggregators such as Flipboard completely ignore anything but the freshest materials. I worked on FavoritePosts.com a while back, it basically helps you discover older content that's otherwise invisible due to our existing content consumption habits. Maybe I should launch what I have so far.. It's like Prismatic for older stuff.
- tspike 14y agoPlease do!
- bronxbomber92 14y agoI second!
- someperson 14y agoYeah do it! I've been thinking about how those who up-vote stories on HN very carefully have an enormous wealth of interesting content in the "saved stories" section their profiles. It's such a shame that this is value is locked away: Somebody could generate pages and pages of amazingly interesting content based on other people who upvote similar to themselves.
- aviv 14y agoOne way I used to "detect" good content was by keeping track of the amount of discussion content items generated (ie. blog comments, Reddit/HN submissions and discussion activity). There are other mechanisms including the social elements similar to how Prismatic works. I'm currently working on a related startup that we actually applied to YC W13 with, so we'll see what happens next. The current version of FavoritePosts will require a couple of weeks before I can launch it as an MVP. But thanks guys for the encouragement! I'll start dusting off the codebase to see exactly where I'm at.
- DanBC 14y agoThat could be amazing - a user picks 3 other HN users, and gets a weighted list of their saved stories.
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- dolphenstein 14y ago6th item on the list --> "8 points by hhm 9 hours ago" Wow, talk about points inflation!
- loboman 14y agoInteresting that you mention that. hhm was my previous username, but I lost its password now. Probably after switching accounts some years ago, after becoming a little paranoid about internet identity (I even sent a mail asking pg to remove that account... he was smarter than me and said he wouldn't do that; thanks pg). I now realize I shouldn't care so much about that really. By that time, I realized that it might be easy to get into the leaderboard just by posting quality links of stuff I was interested into. I put some effort into that by some time and I reached (I think) the 10th place. I stored a screenshot about that, named something like "and-what-was-that-for.jpg" that I can't find right now. But I remember noticing a couple things about that experience: - how empty it was after I achieved that random objective... it was just some score, and it didn't serve any useful purpose, so once I achieved it I couldn't feel too happy about it and the most interesting bit: - it was very easy to get into, say, the 20th or 15th spot. But then raising into the 10th spot was much harder. I understood that people between 15 - 200 weren't trying to reach that kind of score, or they weren't trying too hard. People don't compete too much. Then when approximating the 10th spot, I found that it was getting increasingly harder. I'm sure somebody trying to get into the 1st or 2nd spot would have to spend an amazing amount of work into that. It was just a game I played for some short span of time, then I quit. Now I miss that account a little bit :)
- reitzensteinm 14y agoI know that feeling all too well. A few months ago I decided to focus on high quality comments after feeling like I was contributing to the HN noise a bit too much. As a proxy for that, I tracked my average comment score, trying to get it above 10. Today it's 14.93, which is quite high - only 4 of the top 100 are higher. I think my comment quality has risen substantially, but I also subconsciously started making decisions based on score - not posting on topics that were sliding down the front page, or where there were already hundreds of comments but I did have something to say. In short, the gamification overtook the original goal, and the tail was wagging the dog. I've now started using a much simpler method - taking a deep breath before hitting reply, and trashing the comment if I don't think I'm adding anything to the conversation. I like this way more.
- s_henry_paulson 14y agoI was hoping to see at least one person showing off their HN re-design. ;)
- biot 14y agoThere aren't enough political, human interest, and torrent-related stories. Must be a fake.
- ChuckMcM 14y agoResolution of the MIT lawsuit: http://tech.mit.edu/V130/N14/statasuit.html http://tech.mit.edu/V130/N14/statasuit.html
- mintplant 14y agoA few notes as I read through this: - Passwords are still just as broken now as they were then. - Functional programming is still widely discussed, though the focus is more on Lisp than Clojure/Haskell/etc. - Fourth post is the usual, somewhat sensationalist, this commonly-accepted thing is bad! sort of headline that makes the rounds here every so often. - This post on syntax highlighting [1] reminds me of another recent one [2]. - 37signals is there with another sage-like statement on the business. - Article on women in tech in slot #13. - Woah, is that Clojure there in #14? And on SourceForge, even. It's come a long way since then. - Fears about government invasion of privacy abound. - Hey, MySpace! That spam "epidemic" never quite subsided, it seems. - Interesting mathematical discussion in slot #24. When reading the headline, I almost expected to read "stackoverflow.com" in the domain slot. Goes to show how popular that sort of post is here nowadays. As someone who wasn't around back then, it's interesting to look back on this now and see what the site I love now was like five years ago. [1] http://web.archive.org/web/20071110115358/http://drinkbroken.typepad.com/drink_broken/2007/11/syntax-highligh.html http://web.archive.org/web/20071110115358/http://drinkbroken... [2] http://www.kyleisom.net/blog/2012/10/17/syntax-off/ http://www.kyleisom.net/blog/2012/10/17/syntax-off/
- tikhonj 14y agoDiscussions on functional programming--particularly Lisp and Erlang--seem much more prevalent then than now. Which is really too bad: functional programming seems to have gotten significantly more awesome in the recent past. As a simple indicator, there are only two articles about functional programming on the front page, and they're both fairly shallow, general and not current. They're also related: same author and similar subjects. I'm sure it's just a function (heh) of HN's growing userbase and more diverse audience. Still, I really would like more functional programming stuff. I even vote on interesting FP articles on new, but it often isn't enough, especially because the new page moves fairly quickly and I don't go there that often. But yeah, ignoring the relative proportions of subjects, the front page actually seems fairly similar to the current one.
- jrajav 14y agoIf you want to follow a particular topic in the "new" articles, you could try doing what I do - I follow the RSS feed at http://news.ycombinator.com/rss http://news.ycombinator.com/rss using Google Reader, and since the search in Google Reader results in the feed and query going in the URL, you can bookmark that search. For instance, you could bookmark http://www.google.com/reader/view/#search/functional//feed%2Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fnews.ycombinator.com%2Frss http://www.google.com/reader/view/#search/functional//feed%2... By the way, Reader has many of the same awesome keyboard shortcuts as Gmail - you can use j and k to go up and down in the list, 1/2/3 to switch views, v to open the link, etc. (Try hitting ?)
- richardlblair 14y agoSo basically nothing has changed? And here I was operating under the illusion that we were innovating... Oh well, time to go and make a new photo uploading site.
- RyanMcGreal 14y agoFunny to see so many front page articles with no comments.
- recoiledsnake 14y agoI remember reading Reddit before it even had support for comments! E.g. http://web.archive.org/web/20050809014858/http://reddit.com/ http://web.archive.org/web/20050809014858/http://reddit.com/
- brianobush 14y agoGood things don't change. I guess the bugs haven't changed either, e.g. the "More" link at the bottom is still broken wrt expired link if you let HN sit for any length of time.
- pg 14y agoThat did change, though; since then I've made the More link static for users who aren't logged in, which is what the Wayback Machine is showing us.
- jamgraham 14y agocongrats heroku on 5 years. you make my life easier.
- nsxwolf 14y agoI wonder if that person chose the baby or the startup.
- dennisgorelik 14y agoI don't know about the baby, but he definitely quit his startup. 2007: http://web.archive.org/web/20071012022938/http://www.shelfmade.net/ http://web.archive.org/web/20071012022938/http://www.shelfma... Now: http://www.shelfmade.net/ http://www.shelfmade.net/
- JeremyMorgan 14y agoEither that or he learned Japanese
- dennisgorelik 14y agoAll comments had points back then: http://web.archive.org/web/20071110123222/http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=77246 http://web.archive.org/web/20071110123222/http://news.ycombi... So much better than no comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=77246 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=77246
- duck 14y agoIf you like this you'll enjoy my HN Wayback newsletter: http://waybackletter.com http://waybackletter.com
- brennenHN 14y agoIf that was the front page today, I would not have thought anything was amiss.
- cgcardona 14y agoWow it still looks so similar.
- prostoalex 14y agoAnd that $28 mln pmarca donated to Stanford Hospital materialized in Marc and Laura Andreessen Emergency Department http://stanfordhospital.org/clinicsmedServices/medicalServices/emergencyroom/ http://stanfordhospital.org/clinicsmedServices/medicalServic... Next to Lucille Packard Children's Hospital, an impressive testimony of how technology affects the lives of people in Bay Area beyond technology per se.
- cpeterso 14y agoAny predictions for front page headlines of Hacker News 2017? I'm going to guess we'll see stories about Lisp, women in tech, and patents. I'm going to assume those are three separate articles. :)
- Hermitian 14y agoDigression: A woman in tech successfully patented Lisp. Given the deteriorating state of patent law, I wouldn't be surprised if it is in the same article. 2017. I would hope it will be some discussion of quantum computers. It's a topic that never ceases to amaze me.
- yan 14y agoAhh a post by nickb. I remember making a thread a few years ago asking about what happened to him.
- witoldc 14y agoDid it load painfully slow 5 years ago as well? I fell like I'm on dial-up.
- rahul_rstudio 14y agoWhat I like about HN is the simplicity and quality of content it has offered since so many years. I heard about HN only about a year ago and have been regularly reading it. The insights and inspiration it offers to newcomers is simply awesome. The homepage looks just as it looked 5 years ago. That is something worth applauding. It just proves quality and simplicity always win in the longterm.
- lifeisstillgood 14y agoMy interest is piqued by at least two articles about avoiding a co founder, and one with the sort of research behind it that would be a blog post now
- tucson 14y agoFor anyone interested, a link to easily browse the best posts since 5 years: http://www.hneasy.com/index.php?type=posts&hours=70000 http://www.hneasy.com/index.php?type=posts&hours=70000
- replayzero 14y agoWhen it was live then you only needed like 10+ upvotes to get on the front page
- mvkel 14y agoIf anything, this shows that HN hasn't strayed very far from where it was, despite complaints to the contrary.