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People recommend it as a quick way to browse Hacker News history from 2006 to 2025. Critics say loading can stall on shard errors and the mobile design is hard to use.
People recommend it as a quick way to browse Hacker News history from 2006 to 2025. Critics say loading can stall on shard errors and the mobile design is hard to use.
18 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 14
- criticize it
- 4
- approval share
- 78%
Recommended in 2 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 14 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 3.5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 2 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Fast after the initial load
“Once the initial chunk of data loads the rest load almost instantly on Chrome.”
Comment from 30 Dec 2025 in “Show HN: Hacker Book – All the HN Belong to You 2006 – 2025” “on my phone this is much faster than actual HN”
Comment from 31 Dec 2025 in “Show HN: Hacker Book – All the HN Belong to You 2006 – 2025” Wants data in other apps
“this should TOTALLY be available to those who are scrolling through sources on the Kiwix app”
Comment from 30 Dec 2025 in “Show HN: Hacker Book – All the HN Belong to You 2006 – 2025” “So cool! Would it be impossible fro me to use them on the Archive stats page”
Comment from 31 Dec 2025 in “Show HN: Hacker Book – All the HN Belong to You 2006 – 2025” “This would be awesome as a cross platform app.”
Comment from 30 Dec 2025 in “Show HN: Hacker Book – All the HN Belong to You 2006 – 2025”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Slow loading overall
“it is slowly iterating through the shards without returning”
Comment from 30 Dec 2025 in “Show HN: Hacker Book – All the HN Belong to You 2006 – 2025” “tried loading the site, it's pretty slow”
Comment from 30 Dec 2025 in “Show HN: Hacker Book – All the HN Belong to You 2006 – 2025”
What people said
15 of the 21 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“when go back to the 26th none of the shards will load, error out.”
“So cool! Would it be impossible fro me to use them on the Archive stats page”
“the design is almost unusable on a mobile phone”
“I love that this passion fun project inspired and helped your paper.”
“on my phone this is much faster than actual HN”
“it is slowly iterating through the shards without returning”
“Works fine for me on Firefox on macOS”
“Once the initial chunk of data loads the rest load almost instantly on Chrome.”
“The calendar didn't work well for me.”
“tried loading the site, it's pretty slow”
“this should TOTALLY be available to those who are scrolling through sources on the Kiwix app”
“This would be awesome as a cross platform app.”
“uses a clever hack that retrieves just "shards" of the SQLite database”
“looks quite complex with all these content shards”
“404 on GitHub as the other comment.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.