I find some really good questions (and great answers) on HN. But HN only keeps the last 64 ones.<p>Why is that? How can we access older quedtions/answers?
There's a search box on the bottom of the page. If you select 'all time' and sort by date you get a list of all 66.000 Ask HN ever submitted. - <a href="https://hn.algolia.com/?query=ask%20hn&sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dateRange=all&type=story" rel="nofollow">https://hn.algolia.com/?query=ask%20hn&sort=byDate&prefix&pa...</a>
I second what @mtmail said. You can use Algolia [1] to access older questions/answers. But, if you want to make it more accessible I would recommend to upvote or favorite the question/answer. This way will save your up-voted or favorite questions/answers into your HN account. You can use bookmarking tools for tagging questions/answers. It will help you to organize.<p>As mentioned on FAQ [2], HN limits the number of showed threads because its ranking algorithm. It depends on thread points and submitted time.<p>I remember, there is a website which provided weekly top Ask HN threads [3]. This website is useful if you miss threads on previous week.<p>[1]: <a href="https://hn.algolia.com" rel="nofollow">https://hn.algolia.com</a><p>[2]: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html</a><p>[3]: <a href="http://www.daemonology.net/hn-weekly-ask/" rel="nofollow">http://www.daemonology.net/hn-weekly-ask/</a>
I remember emailing Dang about it two years ago. At the time it was barely showing a page worth of stories. They got it to improve a bit, but since then I don't think it's ever paged on and on like top does.