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Resurfaced independently across 8 calendar years, with breakout response in 5 of them.

submissions
16
submitters
16
observed span
2016–2025
peak thread · 123 comments
527 pts
latest 20+ return · 2025-10-08
36 pts

Submission timeline

2007–2026

One 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.

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Developer here. We weren't exactly expecting this to become as popular as it did.. Just survived being #1 on Reddit – sheesh. It seems our non-profit Bing maps key was revoked.. Switched to Arcgis imagery instead for now. Too bad, the Bing imagery was really great.

Thanks for the post OP. Nice to be back on the HN homepage again. We launched Radio Garden almost two years ago. Since four months I have shifted from doing RG on the side to giving it my full attention. We are doing millions of monthly visitors from all over the world. Now our mission is to build out the platform in such a way that people can use it as their main destination for radio. We are currently focusing…

There is also an app called "radiodroid" (or maybe it is "radiodroid2"; on the https://f-droid.org app store that says it builds all the apps from free/open source) which I have very much enjoyed for this. Unlike the other 1-2 internet radio apps I tried, this one made it easy to browse thousands of stations, search by tag (I guess everything is in there), language, country, etc etc, set bookmarks, list listening history, and no annoying weirdness. Very few that I…

lcall·461-point thread·

When this first came out I retrieved the list of stations (around 20k, I think it was just a JSON file), converted it to .m3u8, and I have since used it as a playlist for WinAmp. It's playing one of those streams right now, using 4MB of memory and practically no CPU. Over the years, several streams (or the station themselves unfortunately) have gone offline. To refresh my list I'd have to scrape the "globe", and it doesn't feel like…

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
5

100+ points or 50+ comments

Total points
2098

reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking

Total comments
442

reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking

Every submission

DateTitle as submittedByPointsComments
2016-12-12Radio Gardenannapowellsmith134
2016-12-13Radio Garden – Listen to world radio by navigating an interactive globeFirst breakout · Best threadgamma_raj527110
2018-07-11Live radio streams from around the worlddrubio21
2018-11-11Google Earth for live radiosjaoued52298
2020-02-12Listen to Radio Stations from Around the Worldjabo30
2020-03-29Explore live radio by rotating the globeromes40
2020-04-24Radio Garden – Map/Explore Radio Stations of the Worldnosuchthing20
2020-06-10Radio Garden – Explore live radio by rotating the globeHall inductiondayve461123
2021-11-28Radio Gardenmattowen_uk60
2021-12-30Radio.garden – Listen to radio from around the globesimonjgreen90
2022-01-30Radio Garden – Explore live radio by rotating the globe_ttg80
2022-02-23Radio GardenBrajeshwar20634
2023-11-13Radio Gardenthunderbong20
2024-06-05Radio.garden play radio from around the world by navigating a globeandrewstuart30
2024-07-06Radio Gardenpeterburkimsher29462
2025-10-08Radio GartenLatest 20+ point returnjoebig3610