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 orderThe OP says "The most favorited articles by the top 10k most active Hacker News members." How was "most active" defined? (Edit: oh I see - the users who post the most comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24352688). It's an interesting list, and it never occurred to me that by counting the top favorites of different subsets of users you might get quite different interesting lists. I got curious about what the global most-favorited would be. Here are the top 50. The first column…
No clue if I'm typical, but I almost never use the favorites feature. I see I did twice last year, and that was ten years after I joined.
This has been posted before but it was a while ago and the articles are very interesting still.
When was the "favorite" feature introduced? I feel like it was only a few years ago..
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
- 1417
- Total comments
- 283
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-09-02 | Most-favorited Hacker News postsFirst breakout · Best thread | tlarkworthy | 1266 | 259 |
| 2022-10-23 | Most-favorited Hacker News posts of all time | metadat | 3 | 2 |
| 2023-07-29 | Most-Favorited Hacker News Posts | explosion-s | 5 | 1 |
| 2023-12-29 | Most favorited articles by the top 10k most active HN members (2020)Latest 20+ point return | aragonite | 143 | 21 |