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content: 2026-05-04 capture run — superpost, review, find updates

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- Superpost: 2026-05-04-geography-is-the-program (4 travel finds).
- Review: snewpapers-newspaper-archive (graduates the find; new `history`
  category; corrects the find's "no account required" claim and notes the
  American-focused coverage).
- New find: synerlogic-macos-shortcut-sticker.
- Find updates: snewpapers find gets promotedTo; noir-japanese-cookies
  flagged with editorialTags: ["delete"] for later triage.
- daily-finds.log.md: capture-run log + review/superpost entries.
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name: "Snewpapers"
subtitle: "Browse three centuries of digitised newspapers, 1730s through the 1960s"
date: 2026-05-04
category: history
tags: [archives, history, newspapers, research, browsing]
link: "https://snewpapers.com"
description: "A digitised archive of American newspapers from the 1730s through the 1960s — six million stories, three thousand-plus mastheads, with an AI assistant that has read the papers."
source: "Hacker News — Show HN"
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> A digitised archive of American newspapers running from the 1730s through the 1960s — six million stories, three thousand-plus mastheads, with an AI research assistant for following a thread when straight search runs out.
The pull is the same one that draws people to Newspapers.com or the Library of Congress's Chronicling America: pre-Google news as it actually appeared on the page. A great-grandparent's wedding notice, a small-town bank failure from 1893, the way a single weather front gets reported in a dozen cities on the same day. Snewpapers organises that into 24 categories and a thousand-plus subcategories, plus a daily "Today in History" feed that surfaces what was happening on the date you're reading.
The differentiator is "The Sleuth," an AI research assistant that — per the site — has actually read the papers, so you can ask follow-up questions instead of grinding through OCR'd full-text search. That's the kind of feature genealogy and long-form research quietly need: the difference between finding a name and assembling a story.
Honest limits: it's American-focused, not global, and the coverage stops in the 1960s — most living-memory news isn't in there. Browsing is free, but you'll need a free account to do much beyond the front door.