Rank history Hacker News itself never exposes
The Front Page Time Machine
Scrub through the front page as it actually stood — snapshotted every ~11 minutes by our forward capture. Pick a day, drag through its ticks, watch stories climb and fall.
Replay
Step through a captured past day — replay how Hacker News’s front page was ranked on any archived date.
A replay of our own capture record — every number is Hacker News' at the moment of the snapshot, and every row deep-links to the story's HN page. The slider snaps to real capture ticks; gaps in the record are shown as gaps, never interpolated. Arrow keys step one snapshot.
Two real captures, side by side
Snapshot compare
Choose any two archived moments to see what entered the captured top 30, what was no longer observed there, and how the stories present in both moved.
Snapshot A
Snapshot B
Choose two snapshots to compare.
“Entered” and “no longer observed” describe only these two captured top-30 views. They do not mean a story was newly submitted, deleted, or continuously present between the endpoints. Score and comment changes are HN’s counters at each capture.
One story through the capture record
Story trajectory
Open a story from the replay or paste an HN item ID or item URL. Tracks break across capture gaps and intervals when the story was outside the captured top 30.
Pick any story above to inspect its observed path.