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.
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HN comment orderBack in 2006 I heard about the Atari 2600 homebrew scene and was fascinated to read about the mind-boggling tricks required to write a game for the system (like, coding to the TV raster beam... madness!). I went down the rabbit hole for a while and learned 6502 asm, and ended up with this "sort of a game" - https://github.com/mrspeaker/plops. It was a great learning experience and certainly made me respect the devs of the day - who were performing…
Honest question: Why is this kind of retro programming at all attractive to younger people who didn’t grow up with that hardware? For people like me, it’s clearly childhood nostalgia. But to be honest, 8-bit programming was so painful that people couldn’t wait to get rid of those limitations back then. (I tend to think the 16-bit era was the sweet spot in terms of capabilities vs. complexity.)
Somehow HN's submission wrangulator dropped off the 8 in the Title. Suggest editing & hitting update
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
- 506
- Total comments
- 57
100+ points or 50+ comments
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-12-28 | 8bitworkshop – Atari 2600 IDE | alxmdev | 1 | 0 |
| 2018-01-02 | 8-bit Workshop | chrisdew | 3 | 0 |
| 2019-01-30 | 8bit WorkshopFirst breakout · Best thread | tekromancr | 281 | 32 |
| 2021-03-04 | Write 8-bit code in the browser | CTOSian | 2 | 0 |
| 2022-05-13 | Bit IDE in the Browser | harel | 2 | 2 |
| 2022-07-26 | Write 8-bit code in the browser | mmphosis | 1 | 0 |
| 2022-09-12 | 8bitworkshopLatest 20+ point return | tambourine_man | 215 | 23 |
| 2024-12-04 | 8bitworkshop: Write 8-bit code in the browser | peutetre | 1 | 0 |