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Re:What does news dot YC do with posts that are obsolete? by danielha on Friday May 04, 2007 @05:32PM (#19546)
Startup News is the current hot stories. Best is stories with record-high votes.

Older stories are still around. They're just not linked to anymore. You can search for them at nycs.bigheadlabs.com

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Re:What does news dot YC do with posts that are obsolete? by ericc on Friday May 04, 2007 @05:35PM (#19548)
Is http://nycs.bigheadlabs.com/ the only way to access those posts that are not linked anymore?

You must have an API that gets you access to these unlinked posts, correct?

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Re:What does news dot YC do with posts that are obsolete? by jey on Friday May 04, 2007 @06:54PM (#19586)
i = 0

while True:

    i += 1

    if not urlfetch('http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=%d' % i):

        break

# implementaton of urlfetch() left as an exercise to the reader

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