[dang]

Actually the mix has stayed fairly steady over the years. If anything the technical posts have upticked a bit. Sometimes when this comes up I pick a random date and look in the Internet Archive for the front page that day to see what sort of differences leap out. Maybe I'll do that again.

Edit: ok, I randomly went to http://web.archive.org/web/20120823000341/http://news.ycombi..., which makes the point clearly, maybe too clearly—it almost seems like too strong an example the other way.

[2snakes]

Yeah this is what attracted me to the site as well - if you look in the wayback for "hackernews.com" you will find a site that was somewhat controversial when it first came out ~99-00. At the time it was, to my knowledge, one of the first public "hacker" WWW sites as compared to locations on underground networks. I also hated it because I had dialup at the time and it took forever to load all those fancy graphics.

[downrightmike]

http://www.waybackhn.com/ is much easier to browse through.

[dang]

Nice! I didn't know about that.

[joslin01]

Nice to be proven wrong