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 orderI can actually fill in some of the details about the history of UUID's. Paul Leach was an architect who worked at Apollo, OSF, and later Microsoft. I met Paul in the mid-90's when he was an architect at OSF, and I was the tech load for Kerberos v5 development at MIT. OSF DCE was going to use Kerberos for authentication, and was going to use Apollo RFC as its RPC layer. It was from talking to Paul that I…
Comments from the first post in 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14508413
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
- 423
- Total comments
- 87
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-06-07 | A Brief History of the UUIDFirst breakout · Best thread | mrbbk | 304 | 66 |
| 2019-02-03 | A brief history of the UUID (2017)Latest 20+ point return | tosh | 113 | 21 |
| 2020-09-25 | A brief history of the UUID (2017) | c17r | 2 | 0 |
| 2020-09-27 | A Brief History of the UUID | wheresvic4 | 2 | 0 |
| 2023-08-06 | A Brief History of the UUID | mariuz | 1 | 0 |
| 2024-07-14 | A brief history of the UUID (2017) | rdpintqogeogsaa | 1 | 0 |