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hackernew appears in 21 chunks across 17 episodes, from 2024-08-26 to 2026-08-03.
Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 2/2/26 (2026-02-02), with 2 observations on this topic.
Semantically it travels with Facebook, emergent process, and selection pressure, while by chunk count it sits between critical mass and mass market; its yearly rank moved from #147 in 2024 to #20 in 2026.
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Range2024-08-26 to 2026-08-03Mean1.2 per episodePeak2 on 2026-02-02
Observations
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Showing 21 observations sorted from latest to earliest.
...But a larger number of people can now viably use it than could before.
A famous HackerNews comment when DropBox was shown off:
"For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mount...