A few notes as I read through this:<p>- Passwords are <i>still</i> just as broken now as they were then.<p>- Functional programming is still widely discussed, though the focus is more on Lisp than Clojure/Haskell/etc.<p>- Fourth post is the usual, somewhat sensationalist, <i>this commonly-accepted thing is bad!</i> sort of headline that makes the rounds here every so often.<p>- This post on syntax highlighting [1] reminds me of another recent one [2].<p>- 37signals is there with another sage-like statement on the business.<p>- Article on women in tech in slot #13.<p>- Woah, is that Clo<i>j</i>ure there in #14? And on SourceForge, even. It's come a long way since then.<p>- Fears about government invasion of privacy abound.<p>- Hey, MySpace! That spam "epidemic" never quite subsided, it seems.<p>- Interesting mathematical discussion in slot #24. When reading the headline, I almost expected to read "stackoverflow.com" in the domain slot. Goes to show how popular that sort of post is here nowadays.<p>As someone who wasn't around back then, it's interesting to look back on this now and see what the site I love now was like five years ago.<p>[1] <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20071110115358/http://drinkbroken.typepad.com/drink_broken/2007/11/syntax-highligh.html" rel="nofollow">http://web.archive.org/web/20071110115358/http://drinkbroken...</a><p>[2] <a href="http://www.kyleisom.net/blog/2012/10/17/syntax-off/" rel="nofollow">http://www.kyleisom.net/blog/2012/10/17/syntax-off/</a>
Interesting how the articles on the HN homepage are almost timeless. Many of those articles I find just as interesting as the one's posted on today's homepage (perhaps more interesting since there's more programming and less consumer tech news).
And that $28 mln pmarca donated to Stanford Hospital materialized in Marc and Laura Andreessen Emergency Department
<a href="http://stanfordhospital.org/clinicsmedServices/medicalServices/emergencyroom/" rel="nofollow">http://stanfordhospital.org/clinicsmedServices/medicalServic...</a><p>Next to Lucille Packard Children's Hospital, an impressive testimony of how technology affects the lives of people in Bay Area beyond technology per se.
All comments had points back then:<p><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20071110123222/http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=77246" rel="nofollow">http://web.archive.org/web/20071110123222/http://news.ycombi...</a><p>So much better than no comments:<p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=77246" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=77246</a>
Any predictions for front page headlines of Hacker News 2017? I'm going to guess we'll see stories about Lisp, women in tech, and patents. I'm going to assume those are three <i>separate</i> articles. :)
Good things don't change. I guess the bugs haven't changed either, e.g. the "More" link at the bottom is still broken wrt expired link if you let HN sit for any length of time.
For anyone interested, a link to easily browse the best posts since 5 years: <a href="http://www.hneasy.com/index.php?type=posts&hours=70000" rel="nofollow">http://www.hneasy.com/index.php?type=posts&hours=70000</a>
What I like about HN is the simplicity and quality of content it has offered since so many years. I heard about HN only about a year ago and have been regularly reading it. The insights and inspiration it offers to newcomers is simply awesome.<p>The homepage looks just as it looked 5 years ago. That is something worth applauding. It just proves quality and simplicity always win in the longterm.
So basically nothing has changed?<p>And here I was operating under the illusion that we were innovating...<p>Oh well, time to go and make a new photo uploading site.