http://www.waybackhn.com/ is much easier to browse through.

Nice to be proven wrong

Yeah this is what attracted me to the site as well - if you look in the wayback for "hackernews.com" you will find a site that was somewhat controversial when it first came out ~99-00. At the time it was, to my knowledge, one of the first public "hacker" WWW sites as compared to locations on underground networks. I also hated it because I had dialup at the time and it took forever to load all those fancy graphics.