Show HN: Timeless articles posted on Hacker News, written 1321 to 2021

Re:Show HN: Timeless articles posted on Hacker News, written... by mysterydip on Saturday December 18, 2021 @08:14PM (#29610432)

One request would be if possible to link to the web archive of the link rather than the original. I just ran across one that no longer works because their wordpress site was made private, for example.

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Re:Show HN: Timeless articles posted on Hacker News, written... by phgn on Sunday December 19, 2021 @03:11AM (#29612295)

I have thought about this, but not am not sure how to automatically detect if a site is dead. Sometimes it still returns HTML but with permission errors, redirects etc. I don't want to redirect every link to archive.org.

Do you have an idea? What's the link that is broken for you, so I can manually fix it?

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Re:Show HN: Timeless articles posted on Hacker News, written... by mysterydip on Sunday December 19, 2021 @08:18AM (#29613688)

Not sure beyond sending them all to the archive. Unless you check periodically or something?

This is the one: https://rumorsontheinternets.org/2010/10/14/magnasanti-the-l...

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Re:Show HN: Timeless articles posted on Hacker News, written... by phgn on Sunday December 19, 2021 @12:36PM (#29616069)

Mhh, maybe I'll add an "archive" button you can click to see the cached page easily - though the challenge with that is explaining the feature...

I fixed the simcity link, thanks for reporting!

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