# HN Hall of Fame

6 Hacker News commenters recommended HN Hall of Fame and 3 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 2 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** A website for browsing about 3,100 Hacker News links that people remember as standout posts, with LLM-graded old discussions. Critics question whether the list is truly legendary and whether it fits Show HN rules.

## Why people recommend it

- Revisiting old articles you remember (2 comments): "after looking through it I see some articles that I distinctly remember" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49009723)) "I think the most fun thing is to go to" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46221554))

## What people warn about

- Questions whether links are legendary (2 comments): "Over 3000 in the span of less than 20 years is far too fast." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49009482)) "Can 3100 links be legendary?" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49008895))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Bigwords.page](https://hackerapproved.com/p/bigwords-page.md): 45 recommend
- [Jmail](https://hackerapproved.com/p/jmail.md): 39 recommend
- [Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok](https://hackerapproved.com/p/scroll-wikipedia-like-tiktok.md): 18 recommend
- [MyTinyCafe](https://hackerapproved.com/p/mytinycafe.md): 12 recommend
- [Wikipedia doomscroll feed](https://hackerapproved.com/p/wikipedia-as-a-doomscrollable-social-media-feed.md): 12 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "HN Hall of Fame", https://hackerapproved.com/p/hn-hall-of-fame/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).