Ask HN: For people who've gone viral] which channels lead to virality?

1 ArisC 0 5/8/2025, 4:52:27 PM

I imagine anyone who publishes stuff on the web is thinking 'I know my stuff's good, if only I could go viral once...'

So - if you have gone viral, which channels sparked it off? X, LinkedIn, Hacker News, Reddit, something else? How did you do it?

And, bonus points, which channels reward quality instead of tricking algorithms with slop?

A Formal Analysis of Apple's iMessage PQ3 Protocol [pdf] (usenix.org)

Starlink User Terminal Teardown (darknavy.org)

Void: Open-source Cursor alternative (github.com)

Hill or High Water (royalsociety.org)

eBPF Mystery: When is IPv4 not IPv4? When it's pretending to be IPv6 (blog.gripdev.xyz)

Fui: C library for interacting with the framebuffer in a TTY context (github.com)

Reservoir Sampling (samwho.dev)

A flat pricing subscription for Claude Code (support.anthropic.com)

Finding a Bug in Chromium (bou.ke)

Progress toward fusion energy gain as measured against the Lawson criteria (fusionenergybase.com)

Podfox: First Container-Aware Browser (val.packett.cool)

From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you." (blog.hayman.net)

For better or for worse, the overload (2024) (consteval.ca)

Usenix ATC Announcement (Usenix ATC Shutting Down) (usenix.org)

Phoenician culture spread mainly through cultural exchange (mpg.de)

When Abandoned Mines Collapse (practical.engineering)

Cogentcore: Open-source framework for building multi-platform apps with Go (github.com)

Show HN: Using eBPF to see through encryption without a proxy (github.com)

Gorilla study reveals complex pros and cons of friendship (sciencedaily.com)

Stability by Design (potetm.com)

How to start a school with your friends (prigoose.substack.com)

First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo XIV (cnn.com)

Prepare your apps for Google Play's 16 KB page size compatibility requirement (android-developers.googleblog.com)

Block Diffusion: Interpolating Autoregressive and Diffusion Language Models (m-arriola.com)

Ciro (YC S22) is hiring a software engineer to build AI agents for sales (ycombinator.com)

Static as a Server (overreacted.io)

Product Purgatory: When they love it but still don't buy (longform.asmartbear.com)

How the US built 5k ships in WWII (construction-physics.com)

Mathematical Problem Solving (cip.ifi.lmu.de)

Egyptologist uncovers hidden messages on Paris’s iconic obelisk (news.artnet.com)

How Obama’s BlackBerry got secured (2013) (electrospaces.net)

A Brief History of Cursor's Tab-Completion (coplay.dev)

The Rise and Fall of the Visual Telegraph (2017) (parisianfields.com)

Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?

AI focused on brain regions recreates what you're looking at (2024) (newscientist.com)

How to harden GitHub Actions (wiz.io)

Notes on rolling out Cursor and Claude Code (ghiculescu.substack.com)

Commercial Solutions for Classified CSfC for NSA to deliver secure cybersecurity (nsa.gov)

My stackoverflow question was closed so here's a blog post about CoreWCF (richardcocks.github.io)

If Free Buses Aren't Wise, What About Cheaper Citi Bikes? (vitalcitynyc.org)

Passing Messages (thedailywtf.com)

Using Coalton to implement a quantum compiler (2022) (coalton-lang.github.io)

Shape and topology morphing of closed surfaces integrating origami and kirigami (science.org)

Mass spectrometry method identifies pathogens within minutes instead of days (phys.org)

My new deadline: 20 years to give away virtually all my wealth (gatesnotes.com)

The Dark History Behind Radio Communication (substack.com)

Show HN: Req Update Check (github.com)

Google to back three new nuclear projects (esgtoday.com)

Using NASA’s SMAP satellite to detect L-band interference (radioandnukes.substack.com)

The second birth of JMW Turner (newstatesman.com)

Ask HN: For people who've gone viral] which channels lead to virality?

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