It's great! Historical material is always welcome on Hacker News.
One quality of HN that we should all treasure is its capacity to distribute historical knowledge. We'd like to do more in this area. A video was posted the other day of two authors of a classic paper discussing their work from 30 years ago. We don't see nearly enough of that kind of thing, and we've been thinking about how to sponsor more.
How so? Having never seen this before, I found it interesting. Doesn't matter to me when it's from. Lots of useful concepts were developed long ago and remain as useful today as they were back then. Sometimes they are even more useful today than they were originally, thanks to other work making the original work cheaper or easier to put to use now.
One quality of HN that we should all treasure is its capacity to distribute historical knowledge. We'd like to do more in this area. A video was posted the other day of two authors of a classic paper discussing their work from 30 years ago. We don't see nearly enough of that kind of thing, and we've been thinking about how to sponsor more.