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 orderIt is difficult to even describe a productive hand tuned to fit the individual Emails setup compared to standard. Here are some of my favorite Emacs things: Helm + Projectile. Helm will fuzzy complete almost anything in Emacs. Projectile is project management. Together get to any Git repo and file there in very quick. Helm is an option to compare to IDO. I rarely use IDO due to Helm. Magit, widely regarded as a good Git UI. Using is believing…
I think helm is the new thing that replaces ido: https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm Ace Jump is pretty incredible. All editors and IDE's should be required to implement it. Here's a video demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZkpmegySnc Easy Motion does the same thing in vim: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3526
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
- 495
- Total comments
- 234
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-11-16 | A CEO's Guide to Emacs. It's Not Just for Programmers | AndrewWright | 2 | 0 |
| 2015-11-28 | A CEO's Guide to EmacsFirst breakout | ingve | 129 | 62 |
| 2017-11-22 | A CEO's Guide to Emacs (2015)Best thread · Latest 20+ point return | prakashk | 364 | 172 |