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 orderA lot of folks have wondered why IE 6 stuck around so long in the first place. It’s pretty simple: group policy. Through Active Directory, admins could do things like force a specific homepage, set proxies for all browsers in the company, disable media features for security, make history undeletable, or even turn off right clicking. Around that time there weren’t alternatives to set these policies in other browsers, so admins just disabled the ability to install them in order…
Ironically, YouTube is now forced to support a browser that has terrible standards support, entirely of their own making: Cobalt[1]. YouTube on TVs is actually a web app that loads into a stripped down, custom webview. The YouTube team doesn't have the resources to implement many web APIs, so they implemented just what they needed. The problem is that they can't reliably update Cobalt versions on TVs, they can't ask users to update, and they can't just break older TVs…
One of the best things that's happened to the web is all browsers moving over to an evergreen model of distribution. IE was such a cancer on the internet, everyone in the bad old days programmed to the lowest common denominator (IE6, 7, or 8). Even while brand new features and standards were widely adopted by everyone else. One of the worst things that's happened is nearly everyone converging on using webkit to render everything. Feels like slowly stepping backwards…
Hey, that was pretty darn cool. It's well worth it to be bold every once in a while, even if it means there is a price to pay.
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
- 3
- Total points
- 651
- Total comments
- 328
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-08-10 | A conspiracy to kill IE6 (2019) | dragly | 1 | 0 |
| 2020-09-13 | A Conspiracy to Kill IE6 (2019) | wglb | 2 | 0 |
| 2021-03-04 | A Conspiracy to Kill IE6 (2019) | declanhaigh | 3 | 0 |
| 2021-05-19 | A Conspiracy to Kill IE6 | appwiz | 1 | 0 |
| 2021-07-07 | A Conspiracy to Kill IE6 | crakenzak | 2 | 0 |
| 2021-08-10 | A Conspiracy to Kill IE6 | pcaversaccio | 1 | 0 |
| 2021-09-11 | A Conspiracy to Kill IE6 (2019) | g3rv4 | 1 | 1 |
| 2021-09-25 | A Conspiracy to Kill IE6 at YouTube | crakenzak | 5 | 2 |
| 2021-10-02 | A Conspiracy to Kill IE6 (2019)First breakout · Best thread | SerCe | 236 | 77 |
| 2023-11-09 | A Conspiracy to Kill IE6 | crakenzak | 2 | 1 |
| 2024-02-07 | A conspiracy to kill IE6 (2019)Hall induction | lawrenceyan | 185 | 106 |
| 2025-10-16 | A conspiracy to kill IE6 (2019)Latest 20+ point return | romanhn | 212 | 141 |