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 orderSo, since we have them and they're not going away, we should invent a meaning for them. Obviously, one of them will have the meaning "ghost character". Other than that, meanings like "mistake that would have been simple to correct if it had been caught quickly, but now it is too late", or "something that slips through the cracks of bureaucracy", or "mistake that does not cause an actual problem, but seems wrong".
One of my favorite Unicode oddities is in the cyrillic block. Some books used to use the letter "ꙩ" when writing the word eye (ꙩко). The letter was (from what I can tell) never used for anything else. Because dual is a thing, clever people then went to write ꙭчи or Ꙫчи to mean two eyes. Both those characters made it into Unicode as there was some use in historic script. However even completely absurd variations made its way into…
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
- 949
- Total comments
- 420
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-07-29 | A Spectre is Haunting UnicodeFirst breakout · Best thread | hardmaru | 353 | 110 |
| 2019-12-31 | A Spectre Is Haunting Unicode | BerislavLopac | 4 | 0 |
| 2020-10-31 | A Spectre Is Haunting Unicode | polm23 | 323 | 130 |
| 2022-07-14 | A Spectre Is Haunting Unicode (2018)Latest 20+ point return | EvanAnderson | 268 | 180 |
| 2024-05-16 | Ghost characters: a spectre is haunting UnicodeHall induction | fanf2 | 1 | 0 |