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app4soft on March 15, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: HN front page ranked using only votes from early u...

Still curious, what had happened to HN on Feb 13th, 2008?

I just scrolled to its frontpage[0] and the top story was “Immediate social bonding between strangers is highly dependent on mimicry”[1].

Any other explanations why `https://news.ycombinator.com/classic` turned back to this date?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2008-02-13

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=115094

derivagral on March 15, 2021 [–]

On google and wikipedia, HN's launch date is listed as "February 19, 2007". I presume this is to screen for that first ~year of accounts.

Funny, since I remember lurking for years before making mine!

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