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minimaxir

HACKER NEWS ● TRACKED BY VIRALHUNT SINCE OCT 2012 ▼ 78% · 30D OFFICIAL PROFILE ↗

minimaxir is a Hacker News page, tracked by ViralHunt since October 2012. Across 171 tracked posts they have accumulated 146K total engagement — an average of 854 per post. Their engagement over the last 30 days is down 78% versus the previous month.

171posts tracked

146Ktotal engagement

61.5Ktotal points

42.3Ktotal comments

Most viral posts by minimaxir

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1

Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump

Jan 8, 2021

POI 2K COM 2K

2

Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever

May 12, 2020

POI 3K COM 1.3K

3

“About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts today”

Apr 30, 2021

POI 1.4K COM 2K

4

Making the dislike count private across YouTube

Nov 10, 2021

POI 1.4K COM 1.5K

5

Twitter to employees: all office buildings closed, badge access suspended

Nov 18, 2022

POI 1.1K COM 1.7K

6

OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

Aug 19, 2021

POI 1.1K COM 1.3K

7

FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization

Dec 9, 2020

POI 1.8K COM 709

8

OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive

May 21, 2025

POI 818 COM 1.1K

9

Introducing ChatGPT and Whisper APIs

Mar 1, 2023

POI 1.4K COM 668

10

Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model

Jun 26, 2026

POI 1.1K COM 744

11

Attorney General will ask Zuckerberg to halt plans for end-to-end encryption

Oct 3, 2019

POI 1.3K COM 558

12

Sundar will be the CEO of both Google and Alphabet

Dec 3, 2019

POI 1.2K COM 587

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