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swyx

HACKER NEWS ● TRACKED BY VIRALHUNT SINCE JAN 2018 OFFICIAL PROFILE ↗

swyx is a Hacker News page, tracked by ViralHunt since January 2018. Across 67 tracked posts they have accumulated 42.1K total engagement — an average of 629 per post.

67posts tracked
42.1Ktotal engagement
21.4Ktotal points
10.4Ktotal comments

Most viral posts by swyx

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1
OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for $3B
May 6, 2025
POI 667 COM 572
2
I reverse engineered McDonalds’ internal API
Oct 22, 2020
POI 845 COM 420
3
I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea
Jan 18, 2021
POI 851 COM 385
4
The last six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on bicycles
Jun 8, 2025
POI 962 COM 234
5
Amazon to invest another $4B in Anthropic
Nov 22, 2024
POI 666 COM 363
6
Replit's new Code LLM: Open Source, 77% smaller than Codex, trained in 1 week
May 3, 2023
POI 891 COM 220
7
It looks like I’m moving to Mastodon
Nov 5, 2022
POI 258 COM 447
8
Fastly hires entire Wasmtime team from Mozilla
Oct 26, 2020
POI 813 COM 135
9
Unity Software Inc S-1
Aug 24, 2020
POI 482 COM 288
10
Ask HN: Was 20% time a good policy for Google's working culture?
Dec 12, 2020
POI 406 COM 304
11
Quora goes permanently remote-first
Jun 25, 2020
POI 488 COM 256
12
Harvesting credit card numbers and passwords from websites
Jan 6, 2018
POI 720 COM 121
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