<i>&gt; A useful function would be to check out the HN frontpage how it looked at a specific time. Let&#x27;s say I would like to see HN as it looked like 8am Pacific timezone yesterday.</i><p>sigh, kids these days.  first of all, i&#x27;m sure this exists somewhere on the internet.  start with archive.org and go from there.  if not, witness:<p>0 * * * * curl <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com</a> -o &#x2F;tmp&#x2F;hn-`date &quot;+\%Y-\%m-\%d-\%H:\%M:\%S&quot;`<p>for bonus points, version control it with github so everyone can see it. even better, send it into elasticsearch.  hint: curl -X -F -H<p>you could implement a website that does this in literally an hour with today&#x27;s tools.  hell, you could even run it through some basic tools like python NLTK and matplotlib and twilio to text message you a fucking color-coded n-gram frequency pie chart every time it runs.  you don&#x27;t need ruby on rails, rabbitmq, redis, and a huge sql schema to do this, just a few lines of bash and python.<p>this would be more useful than 85.1% of startups operating today, which is probably part of the problem.  feel free to steal it.