Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderOh, fun! These came up on HN a few years ago[0]. Recycling some of comment from then: The "Tower Sound and Communications" (TSC) company that recorded many of these was located a few miles up the road from my home town. The booming male voice on the recordings also sounded familiar to me, too. I'm fairly certain I heard him on the local radio station that my father played over the PA system in our family grocery store when I…
Fun that some of the messages in-between the songs are for things like security being called to go to a particular zone of the store. I remember hearing those as a kid and wondering who got busted, never thinking that the announcement might be as fake as the security cameras.
There is an entire genre (vaporwave) that is rooted in sampling stuff like this. It’s a treasure trove.
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 641
- Total comments
- 211
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-05-14 | Online collection of 1980's Kmart in-store “radio” | zwieback | 2 | 0 |
| 2020-12-01 | Attention K-Mart Shoppers: Piped Music Collection on the Internet ArchiveFirst breakout | shervinafshar | 274 | 91 |
| 2023-04-16 | Attention K-Mart Shoppers: Collected K-Mart background music tapes | Kye | 31 | 8 |
| 2025-04-16 | Attention K-Mart ShoppersBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | rpmisms | 334 | 112 |