HN Hall of Fame - Browse legendary Hacker News links
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HN Hall of Fame is a curated archive celebrating the most enduring content on Hacker News. It identifies and tracks links that have been repeatedly rediscovered by the community over years, distinguishing true classics from fleeting trends. With over 1,100 inducted links and nearly 2,000 candidates, users can explore timeless essays, technical guides, and interactive demos categorized by type and induction class. The platform uses a rigorous methodology to validate a link's longevity, making it an essential resource for developers and enthusiasts seeking high-quality, proven information from the Hacker News ecosystem.
Browse legendary Hacker News links that the community keeps rediscovering over years.
- codingdave
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 has brought to Show HNs, this is a great example of something that truly is cool... but would be equally cool without 'Show HN' in front of the title. We're failing to moderate the site well unless we recommend OP does what the guidelines say and "make a regular submission instead."
- gchamonlive
Looks a lot alike Web UIs SOTA models produce, and you know what I'm really glad.
No more people doing crazy stuff with UX just because.
No more frontend dark magic only the most dedicated zealots can make sense of.
Democratised UI for all. And this might not even have had an AI assisted development, I'm just abusing this comment and going slightly off topic to say I'm happy for this tech, as someone that only dealt with backend and DevOps/SRE to be able to confidently create useful graphical applications for regular users and learning a ton about frontend architecture in the meantime.
Btw, a hall of fame for comments would also be interesting!
- embedding-shape
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 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.
- jaggederest
Also notable, the internal list that this may or may not derive from: https://news.ycombinator.com/highlights
- ghosty141
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 enough space to the left.