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Re:Show HN: Hacker News Classics by degenerate on Thursday February 22, 2018 @07:49PM (#16443146)
For links that are now defunct/gone (such as #2 on the chronological list), can you pull the web archive at the closest date to the submission?

(dead) http://yorktownhistory.org/homepages/1900_predictions.htm ===> https://web.archive.org/web/20100108205037/http://yorktownhi... (archive from 6 days later)

I don't think this can be done programmatically though... thanks for putting this together. I enjoy the old posts a lot, too.

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Re:Show HN: Hacker News Classics by Momquist on Thursday February 22, 2018 @08:17PM (#16443335)
The url can be found via the archive's API, and you can specify a timestamp.

http://archive.org/wayback/available?url=http://yorktownhist...

It returns a json with, notably, the closest archived page given the timestamp.

https://archive.org/help/wayback_api.php

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Re:Show HN: Hacker News Classics by degenerate on Thursday February 22, 2018 @10:13PM (#16443905)
That's way more fantastic than I thought their API would be! Thanks. Hope OP sees it.
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Re:Show HN: Hacker News Classics by mannykannot on Friday February 23, 2018 @06:56AM (#16445772)
FWIW, #4 "Two 4000 ft plumb bobs hung down a mine shaft, with baffling results (1901)" can be found at http://www.lockhaven.edu/~dsimanek/hollow/tamarack.htm
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Re:Show HN: Hacker News Classics by madethemcry on Friday February 23, 2018 @02:48AM (#16444860)
I also stumbled upon this too. The article was archived, I wonder why it's not redirecting. Now I'm finally enjoying this post too.

http://yorktownhistory.org/wp-content/archives/homepages/190...

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