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Ask HN: How can I view older 'Ask HN' questions?
20 points by CM30 on July 25, 2017 | hide | past | favorite | 10 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?



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


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


https://news.ycombinator.com/ask

Some relevant shortcuts for filtering contents in Hackernews[1]:

Top links: https://news.ycombinator.com/best

Newest links: https://news.ycombinator.com/newest

New comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/newcomments

SHOW HN posts: https://news.ycombinator.com/show

Noob Stories: https://news.ycombinator.com/noobstories

Noob comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/noobcomments

Best comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments

Jobs: https://news.ycombinator.com/jobs

User Leaderboard https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders

Front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/front

Some of the above are listed here as well.[2] For formatting of submissions, you can refer here[3].

You can find more tips here[3]

Reference:

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/lists

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc


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


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


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.


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


They did a blog post about it:

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


@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


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




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