We've been toying with making a page for each day's worth of stories that made the front page that day. For example, you could go to
https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2016-01-26 and see all the stories that were on the front page at some point today. I wonder if people would find that useful?
We want to do something to help users find the best content they're currently missing. Since HN goes round the clock and none of us does, we're all missing out on something.
(Not quite a direct response to the OP, but it would help with that as well.)