Hacker Blog Posts

Year by year

Hacker News launched in 2007. Its early years had far fewer voters, so the bar for “popular” is 50 points up to 2009, 75 in 2010 and 100 after that.

2026

5,845 posts
  1. Ghostty is leaving GitHub Mitchell Hashimoto · 3,521
  2. Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 Anthropic · 3,158
  3. Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen Rikiya Takehi · 2,949

2025

6,219 posts
  1. Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year Mahad Kalam · 3,406
  2. Stimulation Clicker Neal Agarwal · 3,082
  3. Size of Life Neal Agarwal · 2,619

2024

5,274 posts
  1. GPT-4o OpenAI Blog · 3,138
  2. Moon Bartosz Ciechanowski · 3,128
  3. Airfoil Bartosz Ciechanowski · 2,544

2023

6,299 posts
  1. OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman OpenAI Blog · 5,710
  2. Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first” Simon Willison · 3,363
  3. Bicycle Bartosz Ciechanowski · 3,014

2022

6,153 posts
  1. Mechanical Watch Bartosz Ciechanowski · 4,298
  2. Google Search Is Dying DKB · 3,636
  3. My First Impressions of Web3 Moxie Marlinspike · 3,393

2021

5,820 posts
  1. Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project Intuitive Explanations · 4,022
  2. How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70% meh. · 3,883
  3. GitHub, fuck your name change medium.com/@mooseyanon · 3,353

2020

5,567 posts
  1. Bye, Amazon Tim Bray · 3,816
  2. No Cookie for You The GitHub Blog · 2,941
  3. Gears Bartosz Ciechanowski · 2,760

2019

4,838 posts
  1. I Sell Onions on the Internet Deep South Ventures · 3,015
  2. Announcing unlimited free private repos The GitHub Blog · 2,867
  3. Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible Arthur O'Dwyer · 2,776

2018

4,419 posts
  1. IBM acquires Red Hat Red Hat Blog · 2,611
  2. Why I’m done with Chrome Matthew Green · 2,357
  3. Reading privileged memory with a side-channel Google Project Zero · 2,334

2017

4,763 posts
  1. Reflecting on one very, very strange year at Uber Susan Fowler · 4,107
  2. Announcing the first SHA-1 collision Google Security Blog · 3,030
  3. Relicensing React, Jest, Flow, and Immutable.js Meta Engineering Blog · 2,280

2016

4,414 posts
  1. A Message to Our Customers Apple Newsroom · 5,771
  2. Be Kind Brian Gilham · 2,475
  3. Ubuntu on Windows Dustin Kirkland · 2,049

2015

3,426 posts
  1. G is for Google Official Google Blog · 2,228
  2. YC Research Y Combinator Blog · 1,776
  3. Jessica Livingston Paul Graham · 1,740

2014

3,400 posts
  1. Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform Microsoft News · 2,376
  2. Launching in 2015: A Certificate Authority to Encrypt the Entire Web EFF Deeplinks · 2,019
  3. All Our Patent Are Belong To You Tesla Motors Blog · 1,999

2013

3,456 posts
  1. Don't Fly During Ramadan Aditya Mukerjee · 2,744
  2. Google Reader shutting down Official Google Blog · 1,964
  3. A Most Peculiar Test Drive Tesla Motors Blog · 1,859

2012

3,076 posts
  1. $1B of TSA Nude Body Scanners Made Worthless By Blog TSA Out of Our Pants · 1,637
  2. Light Table - a new IDE concept Chris Granger · 1,592
  3. Outlawed by Amazon DRM Martin Koksrud Bekkelund · 1,445

2011

2,717 posts
  1. Steve Jobs has passed away. Apple Newsroom · 4,338
  2. Watch a VC use my name to sell a con jwz · 2,376
  3. I was once a Facebook fool public.numair.com · 1,390

2010

2,466 posts
  1. A new approach to China Official Google Blog · 1,145
  2. Thoughts on Flash Apple Newsroom · 962
  3. Keep calm & carry on: What you didn't know about the reddit story Alexis Ohanian · 776

2009

1,923 posts
  1. Apple's Mistake Paul Graham · 723
  2. A terrible tragedy: Dan Haubert of Ticketstumbler (fallentimes) has passed away TicketStumbler Blog · 626
  3. Microsoft rips off Plurk Plurk Blog · 581

2008

568 posts
  1. Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund Y Combinator Blog · 532
  2. Arc's Out Paul Graham · 240
  3. “Single?” Lawn Signs Conquer the American Landscape RJMetrics Blog · 228

2007

104 posts
  1. Why we made this site Y Combinator Blog · 166
  2. Code's Worst Enemy Steve Yegge · 125
  3. The Future of Web Startups Paul Graham · 107