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Top Hacker News Submissions by Year: 2006–2015

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2006

Rank Title Comments Score
72581 Y Combinator 15 61
170292 A Student's Guide to Startups 0 16
194417 Google Acquires YouTube For $1.6B 0 12
194417 Black triangle: a useful shorthand and metaphor 1 12
202488 Feld: Question Regarding NDAs 0 11
212243 LikeBetter featured by BBC 0 10
223182 The richest graduate student ever -1 9
223182 MySpace: Not a purely viral start 0 9
236455 Salaries at VC-backed companies 1 8
252953 Top ten geek business myths 0 7

2007

Rank Title Comments Score
18259 Finally, voting without refresh 42 176
19542 How Not to Die 143 169
20114 Why we made this site 57 166
23770 Hacker News 76 150
25872 Holding a program in one's head 131 142
31241 Code's Worst Enemy 43 125
32738 CMU professor gives his last lesson on life 33 121
36717 My YC app: Dropbox - Throw away your USB drive 71 111
38497 The Future of Web Startups 169 107
39441 Stuff - Paul Graham 92 105

2008

Rank Title Comments Score
1453 Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund 380 532
9161 Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy 195 254
10123 Love, Internet Style 43 242
10279 Arc's Out 124 240
10370 You weren't meant to have a boss 298 239
11403 Congrats to PG on getting hitched 95 228
11403 “Single?” Lawn Signs Conquer the American Landscape 26 228
11481 Golden Rules for Making Money by P. T. Barnum (1880) 56 227
11776 How I Turned Down $300,000 from Microsoft to go Full-Time on GitHub 68 224
11776 Diary of a Failed Startup 34 224

2009

Rank Title Comments Score
560 Apple's Mistake 269 723
896 A terrible tragedy: Dan Haubert of Ticketstumbler (fallentimes) has passed away 133 626
1097 Secret copyright treaty leaks. It's bad. Very bad. 287 588
1138 Microsoft rips off Plurk 135 581
1274 _why is no more 399 558
2525 The End Of The CrunchPad 138 435
2898 Last.fm: "Techcrunch are full of shit" 101 413
3142 Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage 105 401
3160 Google is Evil, Worse than PayPal: Don't use Google Checkout for your business 150 400
3458 There's no speed limit. (The lessons that changed my life.) 60 386

2010

Rank Title Comments Score
82 Introducing Word Lens 281 1297
88 Today you, tomorrow me 203 1270
134 A new approach to China 368 1145
154 So A Blogger Walks Into A Bar… 232 1098
192 Google Beatbox 96 1028
241 Thoughts on Flash 505 962
455 Keep calm & carry on: What you didn't know about the reddit story 83 776
529 P ≠ NP 208 740
573 Salesforce Buys Heroku (YC W08) For $212 Million In Cash 198 717
586 Firesheep: Easy HTTP session hijacking from within Firefox 341 714

2011

Rank Title Comments Score
1 Steve Jobs has passed away. 363 4339
7 Watch a VC use my name to sell a con 292 2376
18 Rob Pike: Dennis Ritchie has died 196 1958
23 Boot a linux kernel right inside your browser. 239 1820
27 Paul Graham: SOPA Supporting Companies No Longer Allowed At YC Demo Day 272 1742
28 A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs 121 1736
33 Steve Jobs Resigns as CEO of Apple 305 1667
35 John McCarthy Has Died 218 1619
62 I was once a Facebook fool 163 1390
97 Stripe: instant payment processing for developers 348 1249

2012

Rank Title Comments Score
2 Show HN: This up votes itself 82 3536
13 Request for Startups: Kill Hollywood. 664 2060
34 $1B of TSA Nude Body Scanners Made Worthless By Blog 329 1637
38 Light Table - a new IDE concept 291 1592
53 Outlawed by Amazon DRM 479 1445
65 Show HN: Meteor, a realtime JavaScript framework 322 1386
70 "Lighten up" 794 1371
73 Company withdrawing from Facebook as analytics show 80% of ad clicks from bots 356 1347
79 Hit men, click whores, and paid apologists: Welcome to the Silicon Cesspool 195 1319
101 Farewell Stack Exchange 213 1233

2013

Rank Title Comments Score
5 Don't Fly During Ramadan 962 2744
6 Hyperloop 954 2666
10 Aaron Swartz commits suicide 546 2103
17 Google Reader shutting down 695 1964
21 A Most Peculiar Test Drive 578 1859
22 Lavabit abruptly shuts down 640 1831
26 Heroku's Ugly Secret: The story of how the cloud-king turned its back on Rails 423 1763
29 Breaking down Amazon's mega dropdown 191 1734
31 XKeyscore: NSA program collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet' 612 1688
37 NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide 592 1604

2014

Rank Title Comments Score
3 Tim Cook Speaks Up 974 3086
4 2048 410 2903
7 Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform 894 2376
12 Today is The Day We Fight Back 258 2061
14 Launching in 2015: A Certificate Authority to Encrypt the Entire Web 461 2019
15 All Our Patent Are Belong To You 314 1999
16 Drop Dropbox 1008 1990
25 The Heartbleed Bug 528 1768
30 Hacker News API 298 1715
32 Facebook Fraud [video] 393 1678

2015

Rank Title Comments Score
9 G is for Google 562 2228
11 Email Encryption Software Relies on One Guy, Who Is Going Broke 453 2088
19 14-Year-Old Boy Arrested for Bringing Homemade Clock to School 946 1952
20 Same-Sex Marriage Is a Right, Supreme Court Rules 1216 1905
24 YC Research 369 1775
36 Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platform Code Editor 543 1608
40 Leonard Nimoy, Spock of ‘Star Trek,’ Dies at 83 165 1584
42 “Two days ago the police came to me and wanted me to stop working on this” 526 1543
44 FCC Passes Strict Net Neutrality Regulations on 3-2 Vote 711 1489
46 Amazon Web Services in Plain English 223 1479