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Your reasons given for building this are exactly why I built hckrnews[1], and why Peter Cooper built hackerslide[2].

[1] - http://hckrnews.com

[2] - http://hackerslide.com

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All three sound like they're duplicating the functionality that simply subscribing to the HN RSS feed will give you.

On the other hand, if you haven't subscribed to the HN RSS feed, or have deleted some of the items, then these would still provide a valuable service.

hckr news is pretty cool. I ran across it a few weeks ago, and saw that it embodied very similar goals to what I had in mind. However, since I had already collected snapshots for a long time, I thought, "Might as well give others access to them."

I somehow missed Hacker Slide when I looked through the Hacker News links on Resourcey. Very nifty!

How far back can you go on each site? I see that Hckr News has an endless-scrollbar-like interface, and Hacker Slide seems to cover two weeks. (Those time frames and navigational control might be plenty for most readers, but some of us are a little more obsessive...)

hckr news has data going back just over a year. I've thought about exposing the data via a ui other than 'get next day', but frankly have never had the need. Whenever I've wanted to revisit an item, it's been within a few days -- for anything more, there's hnsearch.

hnslide has 2010/10/15 - current, with a couple hundred missing

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