Startup News: 150 posts
New: Top 50 posts
Best: Top 50 posts
Couple of questions:
1. Is the Startup News section a combination of New and Best?
2. What about the ones that don't show up under these sections? Are they permanently lost?
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