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 orderI've spent significant time reading DJB's source, particularly daemontools. It makes me sad that programmers in this decade don't seem to be taking that much influence from him. Commercial software is hopeless in terms of bloat and security holes. Open source software is sadly not that much better. The whole motivation for djbdns was all the glaring holes in BIND, and I think the same is true for qmail and sendmail. Yet basically every institution in the world is running…
I have dealt with qmail for ten years. It is a complete joy once you have it up and running. You literally can stop thinking about it because it always works. However, getting it up and running requires adding in antispam, antivirus, virtual mailboxes, some additional protective and administrative patches, some extra stuff for SMTP-AUTH, SSL/TLS, reporting, and perhaps a few more patches for fun. Patches, you say? Well, I'm glad you really like source code, because that's exactly what…
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
- 393
- Total comments
- 253
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009-10-19 | D. J. BernsteinFirst breakout | access_denied | 107 | 116 |
| 2013-01-28 | Djb - an ode | colinprince | 2 | 0 |
| 2015-03-06 | Aaron Swartz's Thoughts on djb (2009)Best thread · Latest 20+ point return | cookrn | 271 | 137 |
| 2015-09-10 | D. J. Bernstein is the greatest programmer (Aaron Swartz) | todd8 | 11 | 0 |
| 2019-07-12 | djb (2009)Hall induction | tosh | 2 | 0 |