alt.hn

7/22/2026 at 3:30:36 PM

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

 https://www.orangecrumbs.com/hall/

by oyster143

7/22/2026 at 5:05:42 PM

This is cool, and clearly a popular post, yet also... doesn't the 'Show HN' guidelines specifically exclude lists and reading material?

With the massive drop in quality that AI has brought to Show HNs, this is a great example of something that truly is cool... but would be equally cool without 'Show HN' in front of the title. We're failing to moderate the site well unless we recommend OP does what the guidelines say and "make a regular submission instead."

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

by codingdave

7/22/2026 at 5:33:48 PM

I'm not sure how this would "ruled on", but my take is that the website itself has enough functionality, enough ways to view and slice and dice the info, so to speak, that it can be tried out, and is not merely a "list".

by jonahx

7/22/2026 at 6:06:57 PM

HN rules are slightly bendy and not blindly applied. Things are generally okay if it's within the realm of good taste and judgement.

For instance, I've seen plenty of submissions which were retitled, like a news story which had a vague headline written for "normal people" which ends up being an article about a specific tech issue relevant to this community.

by helterskelter

7/22/2026 at 4:47:23 PM

Looks a lot alike Web UIs SOTA models produce, and you know what I'm really glad.

No more people doing crazy stuff with UX just because.

No more frontend dark magic only the most dedicated zealots can make sense of.

Democratised UI for all. And this might not even have had an AI assisted development, I'm just abusing this comment and going slightly off topic to say I'm happy for this tech, as someone that only dealt with backend and DevOps/SRE to be able to confidently create useful graphical applications for regular users and learning a ton about frontend architecture in the meantime.

Btw, a hall of fame for comments would also be interesting!

by gchamonlive

7/22/2026 at 5:00:15 PM

This was 95% made with gpt 5.6 sol high

I actually did the comments internally and will probably post later in the week.

by oyster143

7/22/2026 at 5:03:02 PM

Great work! I'm doing something similar, but using upvoted submissions I did so I can rank posts better, filter out posts about AI but most importantly flag potentially interesting submissions in New that couldn't have made frontpage.

by gchamonlive

7/22/2026 at 5:25:23 PM

You might have forgot to tell it 'no mistakes' in the prompt?

The 4 boxes at the top are somehow double loading items on refresh (didn't look at the code, just the output) and generating an awful flicker.

by georgemcbay

7/22/2026 at 5:25:04 PM

I find you're perspective quite baffling. It is interesting in that you like the standardization and lack of certain web design crimes and I should not be overly negative to the OP showing their work^1. But man, I truly cannot understand how anyone can see that slop design and feel anything positive. It makes me want to instinctively close the tab immediately as soon as I see it.

[1] It's mostly not their work and just generated though that's not as relevant. But still I think we should be polite when someone shows something that has the chance of having some significant amount of human effort in it.

by basilikum

7/22/2026 at 5:52:52 PM

Separating emotion from logic without one dominating the other is a skill. That's Simone Weil's attention. You need to look at the world with curiosity and openness in order to filter out and assimilate only what you wish. See past what is for what in can be. I'm not saying the project is good or if it's aesthetic, but the functionality works and without LLMs this would never have seen the light of day. All these problems you say are easily solvable with something like Stitch, Impeccable and a tad of good taste from the part of the author. But for a MVP or a PoC? That's really more than enough.

by gchamonlive

7/22/2026 at 5:32:54 PM

And yet the search on mobile opens half cut, the dark mode icon isn't centered like the search icon and in the resurfaced section are overlapping texts. And thats just from glancing through the page on my phone.

Maybe I'm too picky but it gives a sloppy, unpersonal feeling.

by thi2

7/22/2026 at 5:44:57 PM

I could take your comment and use it as a prompt and depending on the model quality it will have been an ex-bug

by gchamonlive

7/22/2026 at 4:22:55 PM

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.

by embedding-shape

7/22/2026 at 7:17:41 PM

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.

That only lasts as long as your browser history. For example, Chrome only holds your history locally for 90 days.

by onion2k

7/22/2026 at 4:48:51 PM

18 year HN vet here. I've forgotten most of these, even though I was around for nearly every single one of them!

by jperras

7/22/2026 at 4:25:11 PM

some of the older ones are pure gold

by oyster143

7/22/2026 at 7:37:09 PM

There's no type for People which I would have thought has provided some of the all time high scoring submissions.

by scandox

7/22/2026 at 5:06:26 PM

One thing that most LLMs do in their UIs are way too small fonts and too much information density.

For example, the "max pts" text has no reason to be this small, there is easily enough space to the left.

by ghosty141

7/22/2026 at 5:50:47 PM

This concept has annoyed me so much that I decided to give it a name and create a bunch of shortcuts in my AI tools to stop it.

I call these things "sprinkles" Because I feel like AI can't stop sprinkling dumb shit all over its designs. Small text that annotates things, little callouts are examples but to me, the canonical thing that AI does when you ask it to build a UI that makes no sense is to create a bunch of stuff on the page that couldn't possibly come from any kind of deterministic database.

For example, if you ask it to sort and filter a library UI for a book finder, it'll add some element on a SERP page that's like "22 first time novelists" Even though that piece of information doesn't exist anywhere and couldn't possibly wire into a dynamic website.

Drives me crazy. Thought I'd share.

by CPLX

7/22/2026 at 7:52:12 PM

Thank you for sharing this extensive work. I’ve bookmarked it; I’ll likely analyze each category in detail—covering the topics, ideas, and statistics—whenever I find the time.

by kaanmavice

7/22/2026 at 5:34:35 PM

There is a code freeze coming up at may job, I'll probably browse through some of the links in the spare time. So thanks for curating this.

by thi2

7/22/2026 at 5:44:56 PM

bookmarked. will never open again

by artemonster

7/22/2026 at 7:46:51 PM

>How Hall induction works

Well there's a thing called a Hall Effect sensor . . .

by fuzzfactor

7/22/2026 at 4:52:45 PM

Love these websites! Design is very cool as well

by mattrighetti

7/22/2026 at 4:17:28 PM

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

by dgeiser13

7/22/2026 at 4:00:16 PM

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

by fragmede

7/22/2026 at 4:02:59 PM

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

by drumih

7/22/2026 at 5:20:24 PM

Good initiative

by arjunvrofficial

7/22/2026 at 4:01:58 PM

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

by bckr

7/22/2026 at 4:49:05 PM

Please elaborate. What issue do you have with the stated methodology?

by nonethewiser

7/22/2026 at 4:03:50 PM

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

by oyster143

7/22/2026 at 4:33:56 PM

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.

by nonameiguess

7/22/2026 at 4:38:45 PM

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)

by oyster143

7/22/2026 at 4:50:42 PM

I was initially skeptical, but after looking through it I see some articles that I distinctly remember (eg Gervais Principle) and blogs like SSC which led me down rabbitholes.

Lots of good things come from the orange site. I’m sure myself and others will dig through these to find those hidden gems that we missed :)

by dvaun