Ask HN: How can I view older 'Ask HN' questions?

20 pointsby CM309 lat temu10 comments

As in, ones from more than a day or so ago?

Because part of me wants to read some of the older questions here, but the Ask HN list only goes back to a day or so ago, and I'd like a bit more structure than 'search Ask HN in the search engine and see what randomly comes up'.

Is there an older archive for these things anywhere online?

6 comments

larryfole9 lat temu

type09 lat temu

Classic filtering: https://news.ycombinator.com/classic

3into10power59 lat temu

Related question, Is there a way to "download"(for machine learning purposes) all posts on HN?

siddhant9 lat temu

This should be useful - https://hn.algolia.com/?query=ask%20hn&sort=byPopularity&pre...

CM309 lat temu

Thanks. Just wanted to see Ask HN questions from more than a day ago, and this seems to do just that.

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traviswingo9 lat temu

@siddhant's recommendation to use the algolia search is probably the best way for simple searching of what you want. You could also always use the API and build a UI that better suits your needs, should existing ones not suffice.

https://github.com/HackerNews/API

provost9 lat temu

I wish HN offered a search function, but they don't. Fortunately, the folks at Algolia offer a search tool for HN here: https://hn.algolia.com

mattmanser9 lat temu

HN does provide a search option, powered by Algolia. It's at the bottom of the page.

Algolia is one of YC's investments, Algolia provides your site with search like Disqus provides comments.

provost9 lat temu

Oh wow, thank you for pointing that out! I've completely missed that for years. Do you know when they added it?

mattmanser9 lat temu

They did a blog post about it:

https://blog.algolia.com/hacker-news-search-algolia/