HACKER Q&A
📣 cdubzzz

What was the top post the day you joined HN?


Navigate to your HN user profile and click your join date to see HN posts from that date.

Mine was: Front Page Subreddits Go Private in Response to Firing of Reddit Admin — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9822580

  👤 raxxorrax Accepted Answer ✓
August 6, 2018

#1: Let's Encrypt Root Trusted by All Major Root Programs(https://letsencrypt.org/2018/08/06/trusted-by-all-major-root...)

#2: I’m a very slow thinker (2016)(https://sivers.org/slow)

#3: Facebook has asked U.S. banks to share financial information about customers (https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-to-banks-give-us-your-...)

edit: That was with https://hn.algolia.com/ though, not by clicking on the date. Liked the idea before reading everything. With a click on the date I get a similar, but slightly different result. Neat feature though.

👤 ColinWright
Top item on the day I joined:

    Microsoft rips off Plurk (plurk.com)
    581 points by abraham on Dec 14, 2009
    135 comments
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=994417
👤 Gravityloss
Found some really good stuff there!

Also, things that didn't age well: "the reddit post that killed bitcoin" for example...