Startup News is the current hot stories. Best is stories with record-high votes.
Older stories are still around. They're just not linked to anymore. You can search for them at nycs.bigheadlabs.com
Older stories are still around. They're just not linked to anymore. You can search for them at nycs.bigheadlabs.com
You must have an API that gets you access to these unlinked posts, correct?
while True:
i += 1
if not urlfetch('http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=%d' % i):
break
# implementaton of urlfetch() left as an exercise to the reader