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CrankyBear

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CrankyBear is a Hacker News page, tracked by ViralHunt since August 2012. Across 67 tracked posts they have accumulated 42.6K total engagement — an average of 635 per post. Their engagement over the last 30 days is down 100% versus the previous month.

67posts tracked

42.6Ktotal engagement

18Ktotal points

12.3Ktotal comments

Most viral posts by CrankyBear

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1

FFmpeg to Google: Fund us or stop sending bugs

Nov 11, 2025

POI 1.2K COM 886

2

SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth

Jul 10, 2026

POI 319 COM 1.2K

3

Colorado Town Offers 1 Gbps for $60 After Years of Battling Comcast

Sep 18, 2019

POI 1.6K COM 498

4

2-in-1 calculator app adds up to surprise hit for retired engineer

Sep 19, 2022

POI 979 COM 312

5

Windows 11: Just say no

Sep 16, 2021

POI 472 COM 528

6

Technologies I thought my son would never use

Apr 11, 2021

POI 404 COM 553

7

All Chromebooks will also be Linux laptops going forward

May 9, 2019

POI 556 COM 372

8

Linux 6.2: The first mainstream Linux kernel for Apple M1 chips arrives

Feb 20, 2023

POI 554 COM 314

9

German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice

Apr 4, 2024

POI 508 COM 323

10

Apple gets smacked by $450M e-book price-fixing fine

Mar 7, 2016

POI 378 COM 278

11

Log4j: The pain just keeps going

Jul 19, 2022

POI 259 COM 288

12

Linux Mint Dumps Ubuntu Snap

Jun 5, 2020

POI 214 COM 289

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