I would respectfully submit that "Criminology PhD Thesis" totally recontextualizes the text and is more meaningful than the year, especially because the domain "textfiles.com" is explicitly intended for decades-old media
I think I have to disagree on both points. "Totally recontextualize" sounds like editorializing to me, which is something we try to avoid here (especially when factually incorrect!), and putting the year on more-than-a-year-old posts is pretty much a universal convention on HN.
Most people won't recognize textfiles.com as signifying 'old material' and in any case they publish new posts on that domain too (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35050858).
