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219points
38comments
#247of 4,366 in 2026
Top 6%of 2026 by points

How HN took it

DebatedReal support and real criticism

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

The thread, comment by comment

Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.

positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker

What HN said

What people liked

  • 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 HN
    • Looks cool! Some of the listed posts are such a blast from the past
      drumih on HN
    • I 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 HN
    • 18 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 HN
    • There 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 HN
    • Love 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 HN
    • This 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 HN
    • And 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 HN
    • You 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 HN
    • I 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 HN
    • Please 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

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