This is cool! Had to scroll way too far to find "wat" but it's a candidate.
bckr•44m ago
Can 3100 links be legendary? I feel like there can be at most 310 legendary links
oyster143•42m ago
fair comment, i've probably exaggerated somewhat, but i think there are quite a few links outside of top 300 that are very interesting
nonameiguess•12m ago
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.
oyster143•7m ago
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)
drumih•43m ago
Looks cool! Some of the listed posts are such a blast from the past
dgeiser13•28m ago
The ole legendary blog post. Get these submitted to the National Register of Historic Blog Posts.
embedding-shape•23m ago
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.
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oyster143•58m ago
i've previously done wikipedia and youtube links popular on hacker news: https://www.orangecrumbs.com/ and https://www.orangecrumbs.com/v