Show HN: Wayback Letter - Looking back at 5+ years of Hacker News

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4084342

by duck • 14 years ago

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I just sent out my 100th issue of Hacker Newsletter and announced my newest newsletter: Wayback Letter - http://www.waybackletter.com/

In either a daily or weekly version, you'll get links to great HN articles from the past five years. A great way to see how HN has grown and changed, plus see what was going on at different times. Lastly, there are a ton of great reads to learn from that I never saw the first go around. Would love to get feedback and my goal is to expand this past HN in the future.

duck4• 14 years ago

Link: http://waybackletter.com

duck4• 14 years ago

I should of included this earlier, but here is a sample issue you can check-out: http://www.waybackletter.com/issue/2012-06-06.html

KateKendall2• 14 years ago

Congrats Kale. I've been loving TimeHop lately and think it'll equally apply to non-social content. Is there a way you can scale 'curation'? This is something I'm currently researching for The Fetch...

duck4• 14 years ago

Thanks Kate! Scaling is tough, but I think you have to use every type of feedback you can get, so for me I look at what is being read in each issue and finding patterns. Curation is all about the audience, which is why the newsletter approach works so well.

KateKendall2• 14 years ago

Have you thought of making the WayBackLetter a section of the HNL? Seems like you already have a great audience that wouldn't mind receiving a few links of all-time HN goodness in it. You could then save the neat WBL domain for multi-purpose cool reads from across the web!

Congrats again on the 100th issue!

Ygor• 14 years ago

This is great.

I was just searching old HN stories trying to find the very first story on node.js. I thought it would be fun to read all the comments again and see the reactions. Still haven't found the story on node.js, but this is in the same spirit.

solipsist• 14 years ago

Maybe not exactly what you're looking for, but here are two links I found:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1884724/what-is-node-js

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=954682

kew• 14 years ago

I like the 'classics' section in the Hacker Newsletter especially when I'm working on new projects that are related.

pasbesoin• 14 years ago

I had an archive of some of these older posts, that I lost (I know...). So, I'm glad to encounter something that is resurfacing them.

While change may be inevitable and something to be embraced, it was a different place back then.

P.S. I dislike the animated favicon, though. I don't like things moving in my peripheral vision.

Show HN: Wayback Letter - Looking back at 5+ years of Hacker News

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