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Re: by dang on Wednesday July 03, 2024 @12:42PM (#40867689)
Also recommended is https://news.ycombinator.com/front, which shows you the frontpage stories from any day—a little bit like archive.org would do, except that it's not a snapshot, but a composite of all the front pages from a 24 hour period.

For example, here's HN from a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2023-07-02.

https://news.ycombinator.com/highlights is another good resource (and if anyone notices a great HN comment, past or present, they're welcome to nominate it for the highlights list! just email [email protected]).

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Re: by satvikpendem on Wednesday July 03, 2024 @01:05PM (#40867891)
Thanks Dan, that is in fact exactly what my bookmarklet does, it generates a random date (2012-01-02) and appends it to `https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=`. I think there should be a `random` link on the HN header links that does what I am currently doing, it would be useful to have it built-in.
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Re: by dang on Wednesday July 03, 2024 @01:50PM (#40868341)
Ah sorry I missed that you were already pointing to those!

A 'random' link might be a good idea. For /highlights too.

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Re: by satvikpendem on Thursday July 04, 2024 @07:22AM (#40873995)
Yep it's fairly easy to make a bookmarklet for /front but for /highlights it seems to depend on the id of the comment as a cursor rather than the date, so it would be nice to have them both as links in the header bar.
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