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How HN took it
12 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 7 critical, out of 24 comments about the project. Thread score +0.25.
Idea: 5 for, 2 againstDesign: 2 for, 3 againstExecution: 0 for, 2 against
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Nostalgic and fun to browse older legendary posts
From 4 comments
I'm surprised how many of those I've never seen before, even after spending more than a decade on HN and arguably way too much every day. Such a good surprise :) I wish the page…
embedding-shape on HNLooks cool! Some of the listed posts are such a blast from the past
drumih on HNI was initially skeptical, but after looking through it I see some articles that I distinctly remember (eg Gervais Principle) and blogs like SSC which led me down rabbitholes.…
dvaun on HN18 year HN vet here. I've forgotten most of these, even though I was around for nearly every single one of them!
jperras on HN
Good curation and initiative
From 3 comments
Good initiative
arjunvrofficial on HNThere is a code freeze coming up at may job, I'll probably browse through some of the links in the spare time. So thanks for curating this.
thi2 on HNLove these websites! Design is very cool as well
mattrighetti on HN
Objections
Ranking 3,100 links as legendary seems exaggerated
From 2 comments
Can 3100 links be legendary? I feel like there can be at most 310 legendary links
bckr on HNThis was also my first instinct. Wikipedia says the US Baseball Hall of Fame has 351 inductees currently, for a sport that has existed in professional form since 1876. That feels…
nonameiguess on HN
Shows AI-generated design with small fonts and layout bugs
From 3 comments
One thing that most LLMs do in their UIs are way too small fonts and too much information density. For example, the "max pts" text has no reason to be this small, there is easily…
ghosty141 on HNAnd yet the search on mobile opens half cut, the dark mode icon isn't centered like the search icon and in the resurfaced section are overlapping texts. And thats just from…
thi2 on HNYou might have forgot to tell it 'no mistakes' in the prompt? The 4 boxes at the top are somehow double loading items on refresh (didn't look at the code, just the output) and…
georgemcbay on HN
Arguably not a Show HN since it is a list
From 1 comment
This is cool, and clearly a popular post, yet also... doesn't the 'Show HN' guidelines specifically exclude lists and reading material? With the massive drop in quality that AI…
codingdave on HN
Requests
Mark visited links using CSS :visited
From 2 comments
I'm surprised how many of those I've never seen before, even after spending more than a decade on HN and arguably way too much every day. Such a good surprise :) I wish the page…
embedding-shape on HNI wish the page used the CSS :visited selector and provided a link on the index page, so we could easily see which one we've visited before or not. That only lasts as long as…
onion2k on HN
Add a People type filter
From 1 comment
There's no type for People which I would have thought has provided some of the all time high scoring submissions.
scandox on HN
Book and paper aggregation
From 1 comment
Very cool. Do you have any plans to aggregate book recommendations and papers (via doi perhaps or other link hints) as well?
toomuchtodo on HN
Questions
How the Hall induction criteria work
From 2 comments
Can 3100 links be legendary? I feel like there can be at most 310 legendary links
bckr on HNPlease elaborate. What issue do you have with the stated methodology?
nonethewiser on HN
Alternatives named
hackernewsbooks.com for books
From 1 comment
i think books already exist https://hackernewsbooks.com/ i've previously done wikipedia and youtube links popular on hacker news: https://www.orangecrumbs.com/ and…
oyster143 on HN
HN highlights page
From 1 comment
Also notable, the internal list that this may or may not derive from: https://news.ycombinator.com/highlights
jaggederest on HN