[eddmc]

I agree that points on old stories would be useful as it helps in search results - I find myself searching for stuff on HN quite frequently. Today, I was looking into a way of publishing software contracts to clients online so they could sign them digitally and found out about RightSignature, Tractis, EchoSign and SignNow all from searching HN, and some of the stories that were coming up were from 2 years ago.

[graeme]

Agreed. When I'm researching a new topic, I always search hacker news for anything on point. Sometimes that's enough to find exactly what I'm looking for. The collective knowledge here is astounding.

(my first post. Thanks to everyone who contributes, it's been an incredible learning experience since I learned about hacker news 8 months ago. And I say this as a non-hacker. This site has been immensely practical.)