Past

The most recommended threads and comments from each year.

2026	42 items: top is Warranty Void If Regenerated
2025	61 items: top is “Since every 3rd message on this thread (at the time I wrote this) is about how Google underpaid”
2024	55 items: top is “This inquiry was originally opened in 2019 to investigate “fake news” and “digital militias”,”
2023	85 items: top is LLM Visualization
2022	120 items: top is Mechanical Watch
2021	136 items: top is Hosting SQLite databases on GitHub Pages or any static file hoster
2020	161 items: top is “Former Uber engineer/EM here: I worked on the Rider app.”
2019	143 items: top is I Sell Onions on the Internet
2018	124 items: top is “It is close to 25 million lines of C code.”
2017	123 items: top is The Awk Programming Language (1988) [pdf]
2016	134 items: top is “What if ‘data’ is a really bad idea?”
2015	114 items: top is “There's a third direction you can go, I call it ‘going deep’.”
2014	120 items: top is “I have intimate personal experience with the FCRA.”
2013	101 items: top is Theranos
2012	111 items: top is Ask HN: How do I start being a consultant?
2011	94 items: top is Does my company have IP rights to the stuff I do in my spare time?
2010	139 items: top is Facebook is not worth $33 billion
2009	87 items: top is How I Hacked Hacker News (with arc security advisory)
2008	47 items: top is More advice for new Y Combinator founders
2007	15 items: top is “I have a few qualms with this app:”
2006	1 item: top is Y Combinator