Announcements

Announcements that Hacker News readers keep rediscovering.

Hall of Fame: 1
Candidates: 6
Topics: 2
Median span: 3.4 yrs

Topics in Announcements

2 topics

Software engineering 5 links 1 Hall · 4 Candidates Security & privacy 2 links 0 Hall · 2 Candidates

Strongest Hall records

1 items

Netscape and Sun Announce JavaScript (1995)

web.archive.org Essays & writing 7 submissions · 6 people · 12.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-12 Resurfaced 2025-12-04 archived copy

755max pts

Recently resurfaced in announcements

latest 20+ point return

Netscape and Sun Announce JavaScript (1995)

web.archive.org Essays & writing 7 submissions · 6 people · 12.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-12 Resurfaced 2025-12-04 archived copy

755max pts

Candidates

Browse 6 candidates

GitTorrent: A Decentralized GitHub (2015)

blog.printf.net Essays & writing 4 submissions · 4 people · 6.6 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-05-27

Needs:5 submissions

402max pts

1.1.1.1 for Families

blog.cloudflare.com Essays & writing 4 submissions · 4 people · 3.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2021-10-28

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart5 submissions

414max pts

Let them paste passwords

www.ncsc.gov.uk Essays & writing 4 submissions · 4 people · 3.4 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2020-06-19

Needs:5 submissions3 active years

694max pts

X debut 40 years ago (1984)

www.talisman.org Essays & writing 3 submissions · 2 people · 3.3 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-06-19

Needs:5 submissions3 submitters

333max pts

Specter – Clojure API for immutable programming (2017)

nathanmarz.com Essays & writing 6 submissions · 6 people · 3.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2020-09-04

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

152max pts

Oxy is Cloudflare's Rust-based next generation proxy framework (2023)

blog.cloudflare.com Essays & writing 5 submissions · 5 people · 2.7 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-11-03

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart3 active years

192max pts