Most-mentioned links in Hacker News comments, 2006–2015
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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.
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A reminder that BigQuery (as used in the query in this link) is the best way to play with Hacker News data; don't scrape HN data manually! The `bigquery-public-data.hacker_news.full` table appears to be up to date with the most recent HN data as well (table last updated today). However, I'm not 100% sure the query is correct for unilaterally getting all links, as running the query on the full dataset returns the same results as running it from 2006-2015. And…
I have seen xkcd #927 used to dismiss discussions of standards on HN so many times that it is the only xkcd comic I can recognize by number.
From an old thread in 2016 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11561711
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.
HN stats
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 467
- Total comments
- 137
100+ points or 50+ comments
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-04-24 | Most popular links in Hacker News comments, 2006–2015First breakout | anton_tarasenko | 210 | 68 |
| 2020-11-12 | Most-mentioned links in Hacker News comments, 2006–2015Best thread · Latest 20+ point return | simonebrunozzi | 254 | 68 |
| 2026-04-24 | Most mentioned links in Hacker News comments, 2006–2015 | chistev | 3 | 1 |