Interesting 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).
Resolution of the MIT lawsuit: http://tech.mit.edu/V130/N14/statasuit.html
"Innovative New Rails Host: Online IDE, Web Console, Instantly Live"
It's been five years since the launch of Heroku?
6th item on the list --> "8 points by hhm 9 hours ago"
Wow, talk about points inflation!
And that $28 mln pmarca donated to Stanford Hospital materialized in Marc and Laura Andreessen Emergency Department 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.
Ahh a post by nickb. I remember making a thread a few years ago asking about what happened to him.
All comments had points back then:
http://web.archive.org/web/20071110123222/http://news.ycombi...
So much better than no comments:
I wonder if that person chose the baby or the startup.
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Any 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. :)
Good 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.
For anyone interested, a link to easily browse the best posts since 5 years: http://www.hneasy.com/index.php?type=posts&hours=70000
If that was the front page today, I would not have thought anything was amiss.
What 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.
So 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.
I was hoping to see at least one person showing off their HN re-design. ;)
My 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
If anything, this shows that HN hasn't strayed very far from where it was, despite complaints to the contrary.
There aren't enough political, human interest, and torrent-related stories. Must be a fake.
When it was live then you only needed like 10+ upvotes to get on the front page
Funny to see so many front page articles with no comments.
congrats heroku on 5 years. you make my life easier.
Wow. Looks very much like the front page today!
:)
You posted the wrong link.
Wow it still looks so similar.
Did it load painfully slow 5 years ago as well?
I fell like I'm on dial-up.
A 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...
[2] http://www.kyleisom.net/blog/2012/10/17/syntax-off/