Hacker News time machine

899 points on this day in 2021

The bullet effects in Terminator 2 weren’t CGI led Hacker News 5 years ago today. The biggest of all three years: “I have toyota corola”, with 1,155 points.

Updated

1,291

points for today's top story

899

top story in 2021

1,155

top story in 2016

883

top story in 2011

Then and now, rank by rank

Points of the top 10 stories on this date in each year. Tap a year to hide it.

Then and now, rank by rank
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The stories

Today

The front page right now, by points

  1. 11,291points
  2. 2672points
  3. 3447points
  4. 4326points
  5. 5284points
  6. 6278points
  7. 7214points
  8. 8186points
  9. 9

    FM-1 Workbench

    open.m-vave.com · by simonebrunozzi · 105 comments

    179points
  10. 10

    A technical vision for the Haskell ecosystem

    discourse.haskell.org · by cosmic_quanta · 84 comments

    178points

2016

10 years ago, November 14

  1. 1

    “I have toyota corola”

    daniel.haxx.se · by robin_reala · 350 comments

    1,155points
  2. 2

    Visual Studio for Mac

    msdn.microsoft.com · by runesoerensen · 413 comments

    664points
  3. 3499points
  4. 4

    Compromising a Linux desktop using 6502 opcodes on the NES

    scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com · by scarybeast · 95 comments

    355points
  5. 5

    Kill the newsletter: Convert newsletters into RSS feeds

    kill-the-newsletter.com · by ProfDreamer · 109 comments

    343points
  6. 6

    One year later

    eev.ee · by exolymph · 61 comments

    291points
  7. 7280points
  8. 8278points
  9. 9276points
  10. 10267points

2011

15 years ago, November 14

  1. 1

    Stop SOPA, save the Internet

    boingboing.net · by CodeMage · 131 comments

    883points
  2. 2

    Cracking Siri

    applidium.com · by nolanbrown23 · 103 comments

    526points
  3. 3481points
  4. 4449points
  5. 5345points
  6. 6244points
  7. 7240points
  8. 8

    Isaacs: try/catch is an anti-pattern

    groups.google.com · by jacobr · 136 comments

    238points
  9. 9215points
  10. 10

    How to lose time and money

    paulgraham.com · by tyn · 80 comments

    213points

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