I don't know how this one made it, but if there's an Analog Dialogue article on the front page of HN weekly for the next five years it will still barely scratch the surface of all the treasure that's buried in that archive.

You can find all the RAQ (Rarely Asked Questions) at:- https://www.analog.com/en/analog-dialogue/raqs/raq-issue-xxx...

Where xxx (or xx or x - no leading zeros) is the number. Highest is presently 190. I wrote all the first ones, then I shared slots, and after I retired I just wrote the occasional one.

I binge-read the RAQs a few months ago. So much great information. Thank you!

I also appreciated the consistent URL scheme because it let me easily scrape all the PDFs to read them offline. The one bummer is that the links at the end of the PDF versions seem to be broken now.

And that's only the AD, if we add old articles for the last century from other sources, the HN will be flooded over. But would be they news?

> if we add old articles for the last century from other sources, the HN will be flooded over.

HN has been doing it for... I think a decade already? The situation so far looks good to me.

* “Corn-Pone Opinions” by Mark Twain (1901)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10822133

127 points, 56 comments

* Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements (1908)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19968114

798 points, 147 comments

* G.K. Chesterton: The fallacy of success (1909)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6512288

198 points, 97 comments

* The Basic Problem of Democracy (1919)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21893486

206 points, 189 comments

* Why I Quit Being So Accommodating (1922)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14418877

866 points, 316 comments

* Why I Never Hire Brilliant Men (1924)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7437643

387 points, 264 comments

* War Is a Racket (1933)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22012255

336 points, 181 comments

* A Mathematical Theory of Communication (1948) [pdf]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23035107

197 points, 39 comments

* Claude Shannon Demonstrates Machine Learning (1952)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25919006

209 points, 51 comments

* Three-dimensional model of electricity consumption in Manchester (1954)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25959571

135 points, 31 comments

* Kurt Gödel's Letter to John von Neumann (1956) [pdf]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19281633

183 points, 85 comments

* An Algebraic Language for the Manipulation of Symbolic Expressions (1958) [pdf]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14885779

171 points, 12 comments

* America's Cult of Ignorance (1980) [pdf]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14778856

169 points, 113 comments

* How does a gas pump know to shut itself off? (1981)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24741029

384 points, 390 comments

* Will cable TV be invaded by commercials? (1981)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22977448

288 points, 354 comments

* Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond? (1982)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4535611

273 points, 229 comments

To the best of my knowledge time-independent articles don't need a date stamp. I never see one on Wikipedia articles even if the last edit was years ago.

My comment was only in regards with adding the date to the headline.

I am old enough to remember when naked Wikipedia articles were discouraged (or maybe even disallowed) on HN.