Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment order> To be able to draw programs that look visually appealing themselves, such that someone would want to put a frame around them and hang them on the wall. I've done that with the predecessor function in lambda diagram form: ┬────────── ┼─────┬──── ┼─────┼─┬── │ ──┬─┼ ┼ ┬ │ ┬─┼─┼ │ │ │ │ ├─┘ │ │ │ ├─┘ │ │ └─┤ │ │ └─────┤ │ └─┘ Lambda diagrams [1] are just a graphical output format for the pure lambda calculus…
If you like this, you may find automation project engineer work fun... or at least familiar. Function block diagrams are quite like this: There function blocks are connected together with wires, and the order of operations is defined by block order. Blocks themselves are like builtin functions in the engine, or they can also be composites. The diagram is executed once per control cycle and generally (if no jump blocks exist), each block is always executed exactly once per control…
Interesting work. The "animated run" feature is beautiful. The language resembles https://esolangs.org/wiki/Funciton
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 628
- Total comments
- 114
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-04-04 | Λ-2D: Exploration of Drawing as Programming Language, Ideas from Lambda Calculus | detaro | 6 | 2 |
| 2022-04-06 | λ-2D: An exploration of drawing as programming languageFirst breakout · Best thread | ink404 | 371 | 57 |
| 2024-10-11 | Λ-2D: An Exploration of Drawing as Programming Language | hliyan | 5 | 0 |
| 2024-11-08 | Λ-2D: An Exploration of Drawing as Programming LanguageLatest 20+ point return | threeme3 | 246 | 55 |
