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Hacker News

Summary

Hacker News is a social news website[1]. It draws 1,394 Wikipedia views per month (social_news_website category, ranking #1 of 2).[2]

Key Facts

  • Hacker News's field of work was computer science[3].
  • Hacker News's field of work was entrepreneurship[4].
  • Hacker News authored Paul Graham[5].
  • Hacker News is the creator of Paul Graham[6].
  • Hacker News's instance of is recorded as social news website[7].
  • Hacker News's instance of is recorded as online community[8].
  • Hacker News is owned by Q2616400[9].
  • Hacker News's programmed in is recorded as Arc[10].
  • Hacker News's language of work or name is recorded as English[11].
  • February 19, 2007 marks the founding of Hacker News[12].
  • Hacker News's official website is recorded as https://news.ycombinator.com/[13].
  • Hacker News's official name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Hacker News'}[14].
  • Hacker News's Alexa rank is recorded as {'amount': '+1543'}[15].
  • Hacker News's uses is recorded as Hacker News user identifier[16].
  • Hacker News's search formatter URL is recorded as https://hn.algolia.com/?q=$1[17].
  • Hacker News's social media followers is recorded as {'amount': '+75507'}[18].
  • Hacker News's FAQ URL is recorded as https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html[19].
  • Hacker News's login URL is recorded as https://news.ycombinator.com/login[20].
  • Hacker News's registration page URL is recorded as https://news.ycombinator.com/login[21].

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Authorship and Creation

Hacker News authored Paul Graham[5]. It is the creator of Paul Graham[6].

Publication

Hacker News's language of work or name is recorded as English[11].

Why It Matters

Hacker News draws 1,394 Wikipedia views per month (social_news_website category, ranking #1 of 2).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 11 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22] It is known by 18 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]

Related Entities

Arc computer science entrepreneurship Paul Graham

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Alexa Internet. Retrieved . alexa.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [23] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_hacker-news_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Hacker News}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/hacker-news}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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  1. 2d ago · Aavindraa · 2026-05-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Email address → mailto:[email protected]
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P968]]: mailto:[email protected]"
  2. 2d ago · Aavindraa · 2026-05-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Github account → HackerNews
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P2037]]: HackerNews"
  3. 10d ago · Aavindraa · 2026-05-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Inception → +2007-02-19T00:00:00Z
    Language of work or name → English
    Aliases → —
    Instance of → —
    + 17 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1|1 */ [[Property:P277]]: [[Q2438046]]"
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