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The definitive list of lists (of lists) curated on GitHub and elsewhere

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11Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
11.7KGitHub stars
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What it is

The definitive list of lists (of lists) curated on GitHub and elsewhere

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 1:49:46 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year11 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2015-08-14 12:57:52 UTC to 2024-05-20 09:48:08 UTC.

01232015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2024

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211

What Hacker News says

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Why do we have curated lists in github? Example: https://github.com/jnv/lists - Do we not have that knowledge on the Internet? - Is it because google search is dying? Is it because github search is better than google search? - Is being on github provides ability for social interactions, while individual sites do not? Stars, comments, etc? - Is github more stable? Individual sites stop working randomly, while github lists pointing to other github lists will most likely stay relevant longer? - Doesn't that work like "Facebook for devs"? The whole idea that we build our knowledge as github lists looks like a community curated book, or search engine, or bookmark manager looks weird to me. The Internet is so full with automation, scripts, program, that surprises me that so much manual labor is required to run this operation.
In Why do we have GitHub curated lists?
the closest thing i found is .. github. You even have a "definitive list of lists (of lists)" https://github.com/jnv/lists You can find lots of foo by searching for "list of foo" on github search. https://github.com/search?q=list+of+anything .. and you can make your own free presence with github pages, just like on geocities! https://docs.github.com/en/pages/quickstart (now where do you find those 'under construction' giffies? :-) /* old things never die, they just get pushed to some free github repo. Maybe there is some git server up there in the sky, that will take care of us when we die :-( (figuratively speaking) */
In What is the web revival?
>What I'm having a heck of a time finding is technical content; long-form programming tutorials, deep dives into academic concepts github search is good for that. search for 'list of awesome anytopic'/'curated list of anytopic'/'list of anytopic' and you might find a repository with a curated lists of links on anytopic. (search box on the main page of github) You even have the 'The definitive list of lists (of lists)' https://github.com/jnv/lists You might also want to check my side project: I have a search tool / catalog of duckduckgo !bang operators, i am hoping that it allows for better discoverability of specialized search engines. https://mosermichael.github.io/duckduckbang/html/main.html - (best viewed on a PC) here is the project page on github: https://github.com/mosermichael/duckduckbang
In Google Search Is Dying
I don't know about web3, but somehow github is quite similar to what we had in the olden days; just search for 'awesome any-topic' in github search, and you will get a curated list of interesting links on nearly any-topic. Also github pages lets you do your own homepage in a git repository, so it's a bit like geocities ;-) I mean our benevolent owners at microsoft give us a free space for self expression, which isn't a facebook/google style walled garden and targeted add pusher, or medium like subscription extractor. It's even better than geocities, they don't put up any adds at all! You even have the 'The definitive list of lists (of lists)' https://github.com/jnv/lists - looks like the same old culture that moved over to a new home in the sun. (now this spaceship is very fragile, and might disappear upon any minor change of the EULA on
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github, matters as usual ;-)
In The old internet shows signs of quietly coming back
I just completed building this: https://awesomelist-fi.nder.site Taking jnv/lists[1] as root url, crawling every awesome list on github, and project front pages. Indexing all the text using bleve search library [2]. Serving cold with semantic-ui. The crawler is a single threaded slow crawler, that keeps on crawling, starts at the head again after completing the tree. [1] https://github.com/jnv/lists [2] http://www.blevesearch.com/ edit: https
In Ask HN: How do you find what sites/services can help your business?

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