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Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight

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626 points __rito__ | 1 comments | 10 Dec 25 17:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.196s | source

Related from yesterday: Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46205632
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moultano ◴[10 Dec 25 18:28 UTC] No.46221469[source]▶
Notable how this is only possible because the website is a good "web citizen." It has urls that maintain their state over a decade. They contain a whole conversation. You don't have to log in to see anything. The value of old proper websites increases with our ability to process them.
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jeffbee ◴[10 Dec 25 18:57 UTC] No.46221904[source]▶
There are things that you have to log in to see, and the mods sometimes move conversations from one place to another, and also, for some reason, whole conversations get reset to a single timestamp.
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1. embedding-shape ◴[10 Dec 25 19:05 UTC] No.46222046[source]▶
> and the mods sometimes move conversations from one place to another

This only manipulates the children references though, never the item ID itself. So if you have the item ID of an item (submission, comment, poll, pollItem), it'll be available there as long as moderators don't remove it, which happens very seldom.