Most Cited HN Comments
Explore frequently cited Hacker News comments
Browse Hacker News differently.
Projects and articles exploring Hacker News and its data.
Projects
HN Reader
Stories and comments side by side — Reddit-style threads with HN-style comment navigation, each link's HN history, and keyboard shortcuts for nearly everything.
HN Wikipedia
The Wikipedia articles people share and discuss on HN.
▲ 14034HN YouTube
Evergreen videos shared on HN — talks, documentaries, deep dives — with the newsy stuff filtered out.
HN Hall of Fame
The classic links that get resubmitted year after year.
▲ 21938Top xkcd Comics on Hacker News
Most cited and most upvoted xkcd comics on Hacker News.
HN Titles
Rewrite a Hacker News title, then reveal the version that took off. Same link, different titles.
Stories
Top programming languages according to Hacker News
Explore language rankings over the past decade and compare them with the Stack Overflow survey.
Interest in programming languages hit a decade low on Hacker News.
Explore a decade of attention to programming languages and AI, measured through upvotes and submissions.
Show HN volume increased 6x since ChatGPT.
See how submissions surged while successful Show HNs remained a relatively flat share of all submissions.
▲ 9444.com now accounts for less than half of YC company domains.
Explore how domain endings and lengths changed across two decades of YC cohorts.
▲ 3954How I hijacked my Hacker News habit to learn Spanish.
A small experiment in putting flashcards into the natural pause between Hacker News stories.
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