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Show HN: HN Hall of Fame – browse 3,100 legendary Hacker News links

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embedding-shape50 minutes ago

I'm surprised how many of those I've never seen before, even after spending more than a decade on HN and arguably way too much every day. Such a good surprise :)

I wish the page used the CSS :visited selector and provided a link on the index page, so we could easily see which one we've visited before or not.

oyster14348 minutes ago

some of the older ones are pure gold

bckr1 hour ago

Can 3100 links be legendary? I feel like there can be at most 310 legendary links

nonameiguess39 minutes ago

This was also my first instinct. Wikipedia says the US Baseball Hall of Fame has 351 inductees currently, for a sport that has existed in professional form since 1876. That feels like a more appropriate rate for this kind of enshrinement. Over 3000 in the span of less than 20 years is far too fast. The entire English language literary canon doesn't have that many entries.

oyster14334 minutes ago

on the other hand, there are much more links than baseball players. also there are only around 1k hall of fame links, the rest are candidates (i.e. have not met all requirements - 5+ submissions · 3+ distinct submitters · 3+ active years · 2 qualifying breakout events from different submitters at least 720 days apart)

i do accept thought that i have exaggerated in the title)

oyster1431 hour ago

fair comment, i've probably exaggerated somewhat, but i think there are quite a few links outside of top 300 that are very interesting

dgeiser1355 minutes ago

The ole legendary blog post. Get these submitted to the National Register of Historic Blog Posts.

drumih1 hour ago

Looks cool! Some of the listed posts are such a blast from the past

fragmede1 hour ago

This is cool! Had to scroll way too far to find "wat" but it's a candidate.

toomuchtodo1 hour ago

Very cool. Do you have any plans to aggregate book recommendations and papers (via doi perhaps or other link hints) as well?

oyster1431 hour ago

i think books already exist https://hackernewsbooks.com/

i've previously done wikipedia and youtube links popular on hacker news: https://www.orangecrumbs.com/ and https://www.orangecrumbs.com/v