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 orderNewsrooms and bars are like twin brothers. You pick any newspaper, and there is always THE watering hole for it, usually the very nearest one. For the Baltimore Sun, that was the "Midtown Yacht Club" and the joke was in its name, in that it was nowhere near the water. Anyhow, about a decade or so, the guy owning it decides to sell the bar and finds a buyer quickly. He starts liquidating some of the non-related assets and then…
Independently of the Pulitzer kerfuffle, this is insane guerilla journalism and I deeply respect that.
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
- 372
- Total comments
- 58
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-10-04 | A Chicago Newspaper That Bought a BarFirst breakout · Best thread | petethomas | 220 | 32 |
| 2023-05-20 | The Chicago Newspaper That Bought a Bar (2017) | bookofjoe | 3 | 0 |
| 2023-05-21 | The Chicago Newspaper That Bought a Bar | sethbannon | 3 | 0 |
| 2023-05-22 | The Chicago Newspaper That Bought a BarLatest 20+ point return | Brajeshwar | 143 | 26 |
| 2023-05-22 | The Chicago Newspaper That Bought a Bar (2017) | mkmk | 3 | 0 |