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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
20261,924 stories
Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?↗ atomic14.com · HN · 404 comments · 962 points · Sep 13, 2026
Pollen tried to remove my article and Google is assisting with it↗ blog.pragmaticengineer.com · HN · 127 comments · 920 points · Jun 29, 2026
Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left↗ moddedbear.com · HN · 828 comments · 1193 points · Jun 02, 2026
Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users↗ reclaimthenet.org · HN · 591 comments · 1561 points · May 08, 2026
DeepSeek v4↗ api-docs.deepseek.com · HN · 1607 comments · 2091 points · Apr 24, 2026
20252,206 stories
Google flags Immich sites as dangerous↗ immich.app · HN · 688 comments · 1464 points · Oct 22, 2025
Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image↗ bitbytebit.substack.com · HN · 723 comments · 1291 points · Sep 24, 2025
GCP Outage↗ status.cloud.google.com · HN · 494 comments · 1468 points · Jun 12, 2025
Undergraduate shows that searches within hash tables can be much faster↗ quantamagazine.org · HN · 584 comments · 1304 points · Feb 10, 2025
DeepSeek-R1↗ github.com · HN · 663 comments · 1843 points · Jan 20, 2025
20242,170 stories
Forbes Marketplace: The Parasite SEO Company Trying to Devour Its Host↗ larslofgren.com · HN · 299 comments · 646 points · Sep 19, 2024
Google made me ruin a perfectly good website (2023)↗ theluddite.org · HN · 529 comments · 1112 points · Apr 27, 2024
Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)↗ openrss.org · HN · 328 comments · 959 points · Feb 24, 2024
Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after issues↗ theverge.com · HN · 1190 comments · 664 points · Feb 22, 2024
Google has another secret browser↗ matan-h.com · HN · 219 comments · 777 points · Feb 02, 2024
20232,217 stories
Website search hurts my feelings↗ openmymind.net · HN · 193 comments · 367 points · Dec 26, 2023
Posts, profiles, and user search are now available without login↗ bsky.app · HN · 333 comments · 291 points · Dec 22, 2023
Google is apparently struggling to contain an ongoing spam attack↗ searchenginejournal.com · HN · 226 comments · 325 points · Dec 22, 2023
Google OAuth is broken (sort of)↗ trufflesecurity.com · HN · 182 comments · 350 points · Dec 21, 2023
Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month↗ blog.kagi.com · HN · 83 comments · 167 points · Sep 21, 2023
20222,055 stories
maps.google.com now redirects to google.com/maps↗ garrit.xyz · HN · 376 comments · 1307 points · Nov 24, 2022
Including “And. And. And. And. And.” in a Google doc causes it to crash↗ support.google.com · HN · 411 comments · 1473 points · May 05, 2022
Google Search Is Dying↗ dkb.io · HN · 1561 comments · 3636 points · Feb 15, 2022
Ask HN: Gmail account security↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 774 comments · 1508 points · Jan 23, 2022
Google no longer producing high quality search results in significant categories↗ twitter.com · HN · 1275 comments · 2813 points · Jan 02, 2022
20211,663 stories
Ask HN: Google is confusing me with others in a harmful way – what can I do?↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 281 comments · 964 points · Aug 18, 2021
The top-ranking HTML editor on Google is an SEO scam↗ casparwre.de · HN · 395 comments · 1743 points · Jun 07, 2021
Google can ban your Android app if they think you’ve clicked on your own ads↗ danfabulich.medium.com · HN · 393 comments · 1049 points · Apr 28, 2021
Only Google is really allowed to crawl the web↗ knuckleheads.club · HN · 346 comments · 957 points · Mar 26, 2021
Judge in Google case disturbed that 'incognito' users are tracked↗ bnnbloomberg.ca · HN · 353 comments · 927 points · Feb 26, 2021
20202,016 stories
Google outage – resolved↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 827 comments · 2316 points · Dec 14, 2020
Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life↗ degoogle.jmoore.dev · HN · 616 comments · 1257 points · Aug 22, 2020
Google no longer providing original URL in AMP for image search results↗ twitter.com · HN · 542 comments · 1375 points · May 27, 2020
Let's guess what Google requires in 14 days or they kill our extension↗ blog.pushbullet.com · HN · 788 comments · 1915 points · May 13, 2020
Every Google result now looks like an ad↗ twitter.com · HN · 972 comments · 3592 points · Jan 21, 2020
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02 / CATCH UP

The conversation now

Popular stories, with attention fading over roughly two weeks.

Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep↗ github.com · HN · 201 comments · 741 points · Sep 17, 2026
Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?↗ atomic14.com · HN · 404 comments · 962 points · Sep 13, 2026
I spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots↗ dayzlegame.com · HN · 434 comments · 764 points · Sep 11, 2026
google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update↗ autom.dev · HN · 554 comments · 681 points · Sep 12, 2026
How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads↗ xlii.space · HN · 261 comments · 438 points · Sep 09, 2026

03 / GO DEEPER

Follow your curiosity

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

Highest rated · the last 30 days

Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?↗ atomic14.com · HN · 404 comments · 962 points · Sep 13, 2026
I spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots↗ dayzlegame.com · HN · 434 comments · 764 points · Sep 11, 2026
Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep↗ github.com · HN · 201 comments · 741 points · Sep 17, 2026
google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update↗ autom.dev · HN · 554 comments · 681 points · Sep 12, 2026
How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads↗ xlii.space · HN · 261 comments · 438 points · Sep 09, 2026
Google AI Mode shows same products 21.6% more expensive than traditional search↗ productrise.app · HN · 76 comments · 403 points · Sep 04, 2026
Google Antigravity TOS: 3rd party usage can get Google account suspended↗ twitter.com · HN · 220 comments · 338 points · Sep 03, 2026
Usenet rewind archive search engine↗ usenet-rewind.com · HN · 48 comments · 138 points · Sep 12, 2026
I sent Google proof of a bot farm. They called it "normal user behavior."↗ dayzlegame.com · HN · 14 comments · 88 points · Sep 16, 2026
Better Vector Search for Long Documents: Chunking Inside Manticore Search↗ manticoresearch.com · HN · 14 comments · 80 points · Sep 17, 2026

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