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> The Wayback Machine now automatically archives every new external link added to the English Wikipedia.

Links submitted to Hacker News should be auto-archived, too: I often stumbled upon dead-links [0] which otherwise had generated insightful discussion on news.yc. Adding archive next to web would work nicely.

[0] Launch HNs, in particular.

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A third party could do this if they wished. Savepagenow is one of several wrappers that can save an arbitrary URL's contents to the Internet Archive: https://github.com/pastpages/savepagenow

Hook it up to RSS and away you go.

Technically, a lot of content is cached/archived by online RSS services, like Inoreader or Newsblur, where users added full-text RSS feeds for HN.

It is possible to do that nowadays and that is one of the things I suggested implementing in tildes.

https://gitlab.com/tildes/tildes/issues/586

I believe all link aggregators should do this, they're a great way of getting defacto quality/interesting content discovered by the archive.

> A mechanism to save pages to the web archive has now been implemented. Just need to ping this URL: http://web.archive.org/save/<insert URL you want to save>.

It's been on our list to do that for some time, but this should make it much easier. Thanks!

I hope you folks implement this, and also that YC sets a recurring donation to the archive. (Possibly tied to how many URLs you submit)

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