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 orderJust reading through the first few chapters of the book on the `this` keyword (which, as an aside, is shocking to see that the feature is so confusing that it merits its own entire book), the code snippets could use some serious attention. The variables are all `foo`, `bar`, `baz`, `a`, `obj`, etc. And the values are all just numbers. Sometimes they have a function that takes a value `a`, and they just do `this.a = a`. It requires a…
I've taken a training class from this guy before in San Francisco. He's pretty cool but he tries to push his own APIs pretty heavily which I found to be pretty annoying. Other than that it was good.
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
- 670
- Total comments
- 127
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-11-20 | "You Don't Know JS" (book series) drafts posted | _getify | 10 | 0 |
| 2014-10-20 | “You Don't Know JS” Book SeriesFirst breakout | AllThingsSmitty | 173 | 22 |
| 2016-04-18 | You don't know JS | zkhalique | 1 | 0 |
| 2016-06-25 | A book series on JavaScriptBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | hitr | 479 | 105 |
| 2018-06-19 | A book series on JavaScript | febin | 1 | 0 |
| 2018-08-13 | You-Dont-Know-JS | ashwanidausodia | 1 | 0 |
| 2020-01-17 | A Book Series on JavaScript | geek-advised | 1 | 0 |
| 2023-04-11 | You Don't Know JavaScript Yet (book series) – 2nd Edition | sine_break | 2 | 0 |
| 2023-10-26 | You Don't Know JavaScript Yet | udev4096 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025-03-17 | You-Dont-Know-JS: A book series on the JavaScript language | Tomte | 1 | 0 |
