[thamer]

Not to be confused with Hacker News' /classic: https://news.ycombinator.com/classic

/classic uses the same ranking system as the regular front page but only counts votes from early users, defined as accounts that were created before Feb 13, 2008.

I'm guessing this is an attempt at getting around the Eternal September phenomenon, or at least an experiment around this idea.

Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24401292

[Sohcahtoa82]

And I was thinking "Hacker News Classics" would refer to well-known posts/comments on HN, like the comment of the guy completely dismissing Dropbox.