Culture & media

Links about culture & media that Hacker News readers keep rediscovering.

Hall of Fame: 38
Candidates: 53
Types: 8
Median span: 8.4 yrs

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38 items

Music for Programming

musicforprogramming.net Audio, video & images 27 submissions · 26 people · 14.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2016-11 Resurfaced 2026-04-05

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They're Made out of Meat

www.terrybisson.com Books & learning 19 submissions · 19 people · 14.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2016-04 Resurfaced 2023-11-26 archived copy

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Google Earth for live radios

radio.garden Tools, games & demos 16 submissions · 16 people · 8.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-06 Resurfaced 2025-10-08

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Every Noise at Once

everynoise.com Tools, games & demos 21 submissions · 21 people · 10.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-01 Resurfaced 2024-01-23

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Chemistry of Cast-Iron Seasoning (2010)

sherylcanter.com Books & learning 15 submissions · 7 people · 14.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-12 Resurfaced 2022-06-02

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Electron band structure in germanium, my ass (2001)

pages.cs.wisc.edu Essays & writing 8 submissions · 8 people · 13.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-03 Resurfaced 2025-04-01 archived copy

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24/192 Music Downloads and why they make no sense (2012)

people.xiph.org Essays & writing 9 submissions · 9 people · 13.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-12 Resurfaced 2023-02-07

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I Hate the News (2006)

www.aaronsw.com Essays & writing 14 submissions · 14 people · 12.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-03 Resurfaced 2023-07-04

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The Egg

www.galactanet.com Essays & writing 35 submissions · 25 people · 15.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-05 Resurfaced 2018-05-24

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Standard Ebooks

standardebooks.org Reference 6 submissions · 6 people · 6.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-07 Resurfaced 2024-01-01

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Giving up reading news will make us happier

www.theguardian.com Essays & writing 8 submissions · 7 people · 12.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-04 Resurfaced 2023-07-05

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A Love Letter to Geocities Sites

www.cameronsworld.net Reference 13 submissions · 13 people · 10.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-08 Resurfaced 2022-08-01

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Who Wants to Be a Thousandaire? (2011)

www.damninteresting.com Essays & writing 7 submissions · 6 people · 14.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-01 Resurfaced 2024-05-08

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Hacker Typer - now you can type like a hacker in movies

hackertyper.net Tools, games & demos 16 submissions · 16 people · 13.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-10 Resurfaced 2024-10-15

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Free public domain audiobooks

librivox.org Reference 9 submissions · 9 people · 9.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-11 Resurfaced 2025-06-01

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Lena

qntm.org Essays & writing 13 submissions · 13 people · 5.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-12 Resurfaced 2026-02-13

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I don't know, Timmy, being God is a big responsibility (2007)

qntm.org Essays & writing 9 submissions · 9 people · 15.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-02 Resurfaced 2026-03-17

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Reasons not to become famous

tim.blog Essays & writing 11 submissions · 11 people · 5.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-08 Resurfaced 2025-12-21

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A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors (2018)

github.com Reference 6 submissions · 5 people · 6.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-12 Resurfaced 2025-10-04

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The Hunt for the Death Valley Germans

www.otherhand.org Essays & writing 8 submissions · 8 people · 9.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-02 Resurfaced 2024-06-03

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Brandolini's Law

en.wikipedia.org Reference 17 submissions · 16 people · 5.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-04 Resurfaced 2025-02-04

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YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views

astronaut.io Tools, games & demos 8 submissions · 7 people · 9.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-08 Resurfaced 2019-07-14

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Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music

music.ishkur.com Books & learning 6 submissions · 6 people · 6.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-07 Resurfaced 2025-09-27

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Jeff Varasano's Famous New York Pizza Recipe (2008)

www.varasanos.com Books & learning 9 submissions · 7 people · 13.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-12 Resurfaced 2017-05-08

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Super Simple Storage Service

www.supersimplestorageservice.com Sites & organizations 8 submissions · 8 people · 13.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-04 Resurfaced 2022-04-09

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Cunningham's Law

meta.wikimedia.org Reference 8 submissions · 7 people · 11.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-03 Resurfaced 2022-03-02

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Why Van Halen's contract calls for the removal of all brown M&Ms

www.snopes.com Essays & writing 5 submissions · 5 people · 7.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-07 Resurfaced 2014-05-16

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Entitlement issues (2009)

journal.neilgaiman.com Essays & writing 8 submissions · 4 people · 9.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-03 Resurfaced 2022-03-17

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Hacker News Parody Thread (2013)

bradconte.com Essays & writing 5 submissions · 5 people · 12.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-11 Resurfaced 2022-11-20

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No-more-secrets: recreate the decryption effect seen in the 1992 movie Sneakers

github.com Tools, games & demos 8 submissions · 8 people · 9.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-07 Resurfaced 2023-07-20

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Frinkiac – 3M "The Simpsons" Screencaps

frinkiac.com Tools, games & demos 8 submissions · 8 people · 9.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-12 Resurfaced 2025-12-02

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1% rule

en.wikipedia.org Reference 8 submissions · 8 people · 9.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-03 Resurfaced 2020-03-18

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Beets: The music geek’s media organizer

beets.io Software & code 7 submissions · 7 people · 9.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-11 Resurfaced 2025-11-10

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The Guy I Almost Was (1998)

www.electricsheepcomix.com Audio, video & images 6 submissions · 6 people · 11.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-12 Resurfaced 2020-12-27

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Stop Reading News (2013)

fs.blog Essays & writing 6 submissions · 6 people · 3.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-09 Resurfaced 2021-09-22

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Webamp: Winamp 2 in the browser

webamp.org Tools, games & demos 5 submissions · 5 people · 4.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-09 Resurfaced 2022-09-16

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Pinball Map: Crowd-sourced worldwide map of public pinball machines

pinballmap.com Tools, games & demos 5 submissions · 4 people · 5.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-06 Resurfaced 2024-02-02

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Nestflix

nestflix.fun Reference 6 submissions · 6 people · 4.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-05 Resurfaced 2024-01-04

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Music for Programming

musicforprogramming.net Audio, video & images 27 submissions · 26 people · 14.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2016-11 Resurfaced 2026-04-05

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I don't know, Timmy, being God is a big responsibility (2007)

qntm.org Essays & writing 9 submissions · 9 people · 15.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-02 Resurfaced 2026-03-17

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Lena

qntm.org Essays & writing 13 submissions · 13 people · 5.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-12 Resurfaced 2026-02-13

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Reasons not to become famous

tim.blog Essays & writing 11 submissions · 11 people · 5.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-08 Resurfaced 2025-12-21

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Frinkiac – 3M "The Simpsons" Screencaps

frinkiac.com Tools, games & demos 8 submissions · 8 people · 9.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-12 Resurfaced 2025-12-02

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Candidates

Browse 53 candidates

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality just got several fascinating updates

hpmor.com Books & learning 17 submissions · 16 people · 10.6 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2021-03-07

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Ever-expanding animation of the life of the 796th floor of a space station

floor796.com Audio, video & images 11 submissions · 11 people · 3.1 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-05-18

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Are Pop Lyrics Getting More Repetitive? (2017)

pudding.cool Tools, games & demos 18 submissions · 17 people · 8.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-01-19

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Ian Knot (2003)

www.fieggen.com Books & learning 8 submissions · 8 people · 17.6 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2021-07-04

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Snobbery Helped Take the Spice Out of European Cooking (2015)

www.npr.org Essays & writing 10 submissions · 5 people · 9.2 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2021-03-11

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Winamp Skin Museum (Interactive)

skins.webamp.org Reference 10 submissions · 10 people · 5.2 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-07-15

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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MusicBrainz: An open music encyclopedia

musicbrainz.org Sites & organizations 4 submissions · 4 people · 13.6 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-09-30

Needs:5 submissions

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Walt Disney's MultiPlane Camera (1957) [video]

www.youtube.com Audio, video & images 8 submissions · 8 people · 15.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2018-04-05

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Why TV Lost (2009)

www.paulgraham.com Essays & writing 4 submissions · 4 people · 12.8 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2021-12-09

Needs:5 submissions

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The Machine Stops (1909)

archive.ncsa.illinois.edu Books & learning 11 submissions · 11 people · 8.4 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2015-11-02

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The day Steve Jobs dissed me hard

sivers.org Essays & writing 4 submissions · 4 people · 9.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2013-06-14

Needs:5 submissions

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Philip K. Dick: A Visionary Among the Charlatans (1975)

www.depauw.edu Essays & writing 7 submissions · 3 people · 10.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2021-05-29

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Teal and Orange - Hollywood, Please Stop the Madness

theabyssgazes.blogspot.com Essays & writing 4 submissions · 4 people · 14.4 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2011-09-04

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart5 submissions

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Nuclear: Desktop music player focused on streaming from free sources

github.com Software & code 4 submissions · 4 people · 7.1 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-09-03

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Why do recipe writers lie and lie about how long it takes to caramelize onions?

slate.com Essays & writing 5 submissions · 3 people · 4.6 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-05-23

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Oldest and Fatherless: The Terrible Secret of Tom Bombadil (2011)

km-515.livejournal.com Essays & writing 4 submissions · 4 people · 8.6 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-07-28

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English as She Is Spoke

en.wikipedia.org Reference 4 submissions · 3 people · 5.1 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-01-02

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart5 submissions

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Liu Cixin's War of the Worlds (2019)

www.newyorker.com Essays & writing 5 submissions · 4 people · 4.9 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-04-29

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Amiga Music Tracker in JavaScript

www.stef.be Tools, games & demos 4 submissions · 4 people · 7.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2026-01-27

Needs:5 submissions

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The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee (1830)

blissbat.net Essays & writing 6 submissions · 6 people · 8.6 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2020-03-07

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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John McCarthy: The Robot and the Baby

www-formal.stanford.edu Essays & writing 5 submissions · 5 people · 14.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2021-10-27

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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The Bastard Operator from Hell (1999)

bofh.bjash.com Reference 5 submissions · 5 people · 6.1 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-09-14

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Reading list for those who love to learn

sivers.org Reference 6 submissions · 6 people · 8.7 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2018-03-14

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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The poetry and brief life of a Foxconn worker

libcom.org Reference 4 submissions · 4 people · 7.1 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2021-11-29

Needs:5 submissions

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Things Unexpectedly Named After People

notes.rolandcrosby.com Essays & writing 4 submissions · 4 people · 3.6 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-02-22

Needs:5 submissions3 active years

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BBC Sound Effects made available to download for use under RemArc Licence (2018)

bbcsfx.acropolis.org.uk Reference 4 submissions · 4 people · 2.4 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2020-09-25

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The Structure of Stand-Up Comedy

pudding.cool Tools, games & demos 4 submissions · 4 people · 6.2 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2021-10-07

Needs:5 submissions

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“MP3 is dead” missed the real, much better story

marco.org Essays & writing 4 submissions · 3 people · 6.4 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-10-11

Needs:5 submissions

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The Wire in HD

davidsimon.com Essays & writing 4 submissions · 2 people · 10.7 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-09-20

Needs:5 submissions3 submitters

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Attention K-Mart Shoppers

archive.org Reference 4 submissions · 4 people · 4.9 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-04-16

Needs:5 submissions

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New Stuff

www.thefarside.com Reference 3 submissions · 3 people · 5.3 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-10-17

Needs:5 submissions3 active years

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Accelerando (2005)

www.antipope.org Books & learning 3 submissions · 3 people · 3.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2026-05-16

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart5 submissions

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The Impossible Music of Black MIDI

rhizome.org Essays & writing 4 submissions · 4 people · 2.1 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2015-11-11

Needs:5 submissions3 active years

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How Much Land Does a Man Need? (1886)

www.online-literature.com Books & learning 4 submissions · 4 people · 3.9 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-12-08

Needs:5 submissions

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Spotify's Beta Used 'Pirate' MP3 Files, Some from Pirate Bay (2017)

torrentfreak.com Essays & writing 3 submissions · 3 people · 7.8 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-02-25

Needs:5 submissions

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Causal Inference Book

www.hsph.harvard.edu Books & learning 5 submissions · 5 people · 5.6 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2018-07-11

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Laws of Showrunning (2016) [pdf]

okbjgm.weebly.com Research & data 6 submissions · 5 people · 6.1 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-09-21

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Playball – Watch MLB games from a terminal

github.com Software & code 3 submissions · 3 people · 5.8 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-10-02

Needs:5 submissions

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Library of Juggling

libraryofjuggling.com Reference 5 submissions · 4 people · 8.9 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2026-02-02

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Will cable TV be invaded by commercials? (1981)

www.nytimes.com Essays & writing 3 submissions · 2 people · 3.7 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2020-04-25

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