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6,916 stories · 72 in 30 days · Updated Sep 28, 2026

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01 / EXPLORE THROUGH TIME

Timeline

Start with the latest. Scroll back through time, or zoom in for more.

Year by yearUp to 5 stories per year
2026746 stories
Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 403 comments · 868 points · Sep 11, 2026
Show HN: I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments↗ hackernewstrends.com · HN · 156 comments · 822 points · Jun 25, 2026
Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 1668 comments · 4229 points · Mar 11, 2026
Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 515 comments · 721 points · Mar 08, 2026
Ask HN: Share your personal website↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 2386 comments · 950 points · Jan 14, 2026
2025835 stories
Show HN: 22 GB of Hacker News in SQLite↗ hackerbook.dosaygo.com · HN · 221 comments · 730 points · Dec 30, 2025
Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest↗ dosaygo-studio.github.io · HN · 321 comments · 1384 points · Dec 19, 2025
Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now↗ dosaygo-studio.github.io · HN · 965 comments · 3346 points · Dec 09, 2025
Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 198 comments · 805 points · Nov 27, 2025
Tell HN: Announcing tomhow as a public moderator↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 462 comments · 1825 points · Apr 02, 2025
2024873 stories
Happy New Year 2025↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 258 comments · 1223 points · Dec 31, 2024
Show HN: Hacker News frontpage as a print newspaper that you can personalize↗ yourhackernews.com · HN · 139 comments · 564 points · Nov 06, 2024
Show HN: HN Update – Hourly news broadcast of top HN stories↗ hnup.date · HN · 178 comments · 644 points · Oct 20, 2024
Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your city↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 372 comments · 768 points · Sep 14, 2024
Stories removed from the Hacker News Front Page, updated in real time↗ github.com · HN · 489 comments · 712 points · Feb 02, 2024
20231,204 stories
Happy New Year HN!↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 265 comments · 1393 points · Dec 31, 2023
Most favorited articles by the top 10k most active HN members (2020)↗ observablehq.com · HN · 21 comments · 143 points · Dec 29, 2023
A list of Hacker News's undocumented features and behaviors↗ github.com · HN · 279 comments · 653 points · Dec 26, 2023
"About 67k” sites are banned from submission on HN, the list is kept secret↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 92 comments · 88 points · Aug 15, 2023
HN: Thank you for being fast, ad-free and text only↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 40 comments · 173 points · Jan 24, 2023
20221,201 stories
Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 116 comments · 676 points · Nov 24, 2022
Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)↗ bradconte.com · HN · 329 comments · 1046 points · Nov 20, 2022
Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 754 comments · 982 points · Nov 06, 2022
Happy 15th birthday Hacker News↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 202 comments · 1450 points · Feb 18, 2022
Poll: Where do you live?↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 535 comments · 986 points · Feb 04, 2022
2021952 stories
Ask HN: What are these low quality “code snippet” sites?↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 316 comments · 594 points · Dec 01, 2021
Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving Everyone↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 224 comments · 1098 points · Nov 25, 2021
It's weird that most of “Hacker” news is dominated by business news↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 282 comments · 682 points · Oct 09, 2021
Tell HN: Thanks to thehodge and littlewarden.com, this site is up today↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 78 comments · 1314 points · Sep 09, 2021
Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 272 comments · 819 points · May 27, 2021
20201,105 stories
Happy New Year HN↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 236 comments · 986 points · Dec 31, 2020
Tell HN: Thank You Dang↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 250 comments · 2363 points · Nov 27, 2020
Most-favorited Hacker News posts↗ observablehq.com · HN · 259 comments · 1266 points · Sep 02, 2020
Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please?↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 445 comments · 780 points · May 15, 2020
Thank HN: You helped me get a new job↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 193 comments · 2425 points · Jan 15, 2020
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02 / CATCH UP

The conversation now

Popular stories, with attention fading over roughly two weeks.

Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 403 comments · 868 points · Sep 11, 2026
Why is Hacker News like that?↗ drewdevault.com · HN · 172 comments · 355 points · Sep 23, 2026
How Hacker News ranking works: scoring, controversy, and penalties (2013)↗ righto.com · HN · 110 comments · 205 points · Sep 19, 2026
Show HN: Hntui – A TUI for Hacker News↗ github.com · HN · 61 comments · 100 points · Sep 28, 2026
Show HN: Hacker Atlas - A map of what Hacker News talks about↗ hackeratlas.com · HN · 28 comments · 86 points · Sep 25, 2026

03 / GO DEEPER

Follow your curiosity

Find a particular story, revisit a year, or see what resonated.

Highest rated · the last 30 days

Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 403 comments · 868 points · Sep 11, 2026
Why is Hacker News like that?↗ drewdevault.com · HN · 172 comments · 355 points · Sep 23, 2026
Show HN: Hacker News, without AI↗ hcker.news · HN · 85 comments · 207 points · Sep 11, 2026
How Hacker News ranking works: scoring, controversy, and penalties (2013)↗ righto.com · HN · 110 comments · 205 points · Sep 19, 2026
Show HN: Hacker News, Without AI↗ unslop.news · HN · 82 comments · 198 points · Sep 11, 2026
Hacker News with reduced priority for AI driven content↗ sprinklz.io · HN · 54 comments · 121 points · Sep 11, 2026
Show HN: Hntui – A TUI for Hacker News↗ github.com · HN · 61 comments · 100 points · Sep 28, 2026
Over 12% of links posted to Hacker News are Show HN projects now↗ orangecrumbs.com · HN · 44 comments · 96 points · Sep 15, 2026
Show HN: Hacker Atlas - A map of what Hacker News talks about↗ hackeratlas.com · HN · 28 comments · 86 points · Sep 25, 2026
GrapheneOS: Nearly all of our recent posts on Hacker News are being flagged↗ twitter.com · HN · 7 comments · 34 points · Sep 12, 2026

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