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I'm glad someone archived this. I had a feeling this was going to happen when I saw how new the posts were.

I have a habit of making sure potentially controversial articles are on archive.org whenever I come across them, just for this exact reason.

(It's on my to-do list to automatically mirror all HN submissions as well)

Is there an API for that? I could only find one to check if a page is available (https://archive.org/help/wayback_api.php)

Nevermind, found it: https://foxrow.com/til-api-for-saving-webpages-in-the-waybac...

I'll add this to our hn.curiosity.ai server asap, should be pretty easy to automate as we already have post sync implemented there

If you do that, can you also throw $1000 a year to the Archive so they can buy a few hard drives for the stuff you are asking them to store? Thanks!

Do they store on film or spinning rust?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18117298

> It's on my to-do list to automatically mirror all HN submissions as well

I recently emailed that suggestion to dang as well - both Web Archive and Archive Today (aka archive.is/ws/ph/wh/whatever), as the former is more likely to stick around and the latter is better than 12ft at bypassing paywalls. It's on their to-do list as well.

I'm a huge side project procrastinator, but if this comes after HN performance improvements on dang's to-do list I feel like I might beat them to it ;)

Keep in mind that the website author has the ability to delete content from archive.org (and I've seen a pretty significant website for a community I'm a part of do so when it shut down, ostensibly for "GDPR compliance" reasons.)

All it takes is a robot.txt file with the right entries in it.

We need something like archive.org, but which reflects the wishes of historians and preservationists, not paranoid website owners.

Do we need that? I feel like the right to be forgotten needs to be protected too. I’m already uncomfortable with the extent to which everything I write can live forever

Which is why your alias is wisely zztop44 and not JamesWilliamsPattersonChicago84.

The right to be forgotten is a very recent invention and very much not universally agreed upon.

archive.org will bend to censors very easily unfortunately.

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