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Here you go: https://www.diffchecker.com/ya8PjzNT

This is fantastic. Thank you! It looks like that link will expire in 7 days; is there a way to make it permanent? I’d like to share it.

Here you go: https://web.archive.org/web/20220423012954/https://www.diffc...

Hat tip for the clever solution. :) “If only there were a way to get a snapshot of any website at a given date..”

Interesting tool. It would be even better if it recognized shifted lines, like line 12 in the original is line 16 in the present version.

Here's the oldest snapshot, from 2014. Diffing is left as an exercise for the reader.

https://web.archive.org/web/20140702092610/https://news.ycom...

Thanks! Also surprising that archive.org only caught the post-pg era. I was curious how the guidelines evolved afterwards. There have been a few great additions.

2014 is just when kogir made everything be HTTPS and also moved the static URLs under news.ycombinator.com.

You can get earlier like this:

https://web.archive.org/web/2021*/http://www.ycombinator.com...

https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2009-04-22