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.
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HN comment orderAt least one of these is just terrible. The “Facebook” one is written by some firm trying to hawk their monitoring stuff. It implies you can understand what happened inside from glorified traceroutes. What actually happened that night is far more complicated, and has nothing to do with people intentionally disconnecting the site from the internet.
I think it'd be easier to browse if it'd be organized in a directory structure like: Microsoft/ Outage 1 Outage 2 In case anyone feels like contributing: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=postmortem&sort=byPopularity&p... https://hn.algolia.com/?query=post-mortem&sort=byPopularity&...
Kudos to the author for crystal clear one line summaries. As someone who struggles to write clear single line titles for Jira tickets, I don’t consider this ability to be easy or obvious.
Thanks for sharing. This is great prompting material for pre-mortems! Or for notebookLM to generate some bedtime stories ..
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
- 383
- Total comments
- 35
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-08-08 | A collection of postmortemsFirst breakout | luu | 152 | 16 |
| 2019-01-10 | Post-mortems: A collection of postmortems | yarapavan | 3 | 1 |
| 2019-01-28 | A List of Post-Mortems | talonx | 1 | 0 |
| 2019-07-23 | A Collection of Postmortems | heshiebee | 2 | 0 |
| 2019-11-05 | A Collection of Postmortems | mooreds | 5 | 0 |
| 2020-08-08 | A List of Postmortems | clockworksoul | 6 | 0 |
| 2020-10-11 | A List of Post-MortemsBest thread | ezhil | 174 | 16 |
| 2022-04-04 | A Collection of PostmortemsLatest 20+ point return | vinnyglennon | 24 | 1 |
| 2023-11-30 | A List of Post-Mortems | ahamez | 2 | 0 |
| 2024-01-16 | A Collection of Postmortems | ohjeez | 2 | 0 |
| 2024-09-20 | A List of Post-Mortems | alexzeitler | 1 | 0 |
| 2024-12-29 | A List of Post-Mortems | surprisetalk | 3 | 0 |
| 2025-11-13 | Collection of Postmortems | nateb2022 | 4 | 0 |
| 2026-04-26 | A List of Post-Mortems | carlos-menezes | 4 | 1 |