Hey everyone! I love how we often talk about older classic articles here (posts with the year in the title like [0]). I haven't seen that practice on other sites, which is a shame. For me these posts often lead to the most valuable discussions.

So I built this small website [1] to browse and search across all timeless HN posts [2]. The idea is to make use of the immense library we're all curating by posting and commenting here. What you can do with the site:

• Browse the best links of all time, according to HN: https://hn.lindylearn.io/best

• Search for resources for example on "career advice" (prioritising old content that's still reposted frequently): https://hn.lindylearn.io/search?q=career%20advice

• See the best links per publishing year. For example, which articles from 1995 do we still talk about? https://hn.lindylearn.io/years/1995

• What are the best posts on any website? https://hn.lindylearn.io/from?site=paulgraham.com

It was a quick project to put together, but I hope it's somewhat useful not just for myself. Halfway through I realised there's some prior art for it [3], but I think this site adds enough to make it worthwhile. I'm curious to hear what you think.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29590667

[1] Named "Lindy Hacker News" after the Lindy Effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect

[2] It indexes all HN posts with a year in the title that have more than 40 upvotes, where the article publish date is >= 2 years before the post date (results in about 10k posts). Articles are ranked by the summed score across all posts for the url.

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16442888