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 orderYikes! So HN is the cause of my Friday evening being so busy... Smiles all around, -Cliff
Warm greetings to m'friends at HackerNews from an astronomer who's blushing from this attention. Like most old school hackers, I try to explore ideas that keep me awake ... the "I wonder if I can make an x" where x may be a topological manifold, an arduino line-follower, a garden leaf moulded into ceramic, a Penrose tile pattern, an LTE geolocation algorithm... And, as most of you realize, this Klein bottle microbusiness is mainly to have fun and stay busy…
If you have the time and the inclination, one of the best things you can do is go talk to Cliff Stoll at his home in Berkely from which he operates Acme Klein Bottle. He not only sold me the bottle, but gave me a tour of his "warehouse" - Actually the foundation of his house, which he drives a custom RC forklift around to store his bottles. This is the same Cliff Stoll of The Cuckoo's Egg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuckoo%27s_Egg_(book) -…
Yikes - I'm mentioned on YCombinator! I'm honored, but a bit taken aback. Umm - what to say? Whatever I'm accused of, it's probably true. And yes, I make those Klein bottles. A way for this physicist to tweak the noses of his mathematican friends... Warm cheers all around, -Cliff (sunny afternoon in Oakland)
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
- 794
- Total comments
- 225
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008-03-23 | Klein Bottles - Cliff Stoll's Old School E-Commerce Site (with a cool product) | pius | 4 | 0 |
| 2015-01-21 | Zero-Volume Glass Klein Bottles: 3D Immersion of 4D Shape | grhmc | 53 | 23 |
| 2017-04-01 | Acme Klein BottleFirst breakout | ZeljkoS | 276 | 63 |
| 2019-06-21 | Get an Acme Klein BottleBest thread | YeGoblynQueenne | 296 | 77 |
| 2020-06-20 | Coronavirus message on Cliff's Klein Bottle site | jimnotgym | 2 | 0 |
| 2020-11-26 | Acme Klein Bottle | vector_spaces | 2 | 0 |
| 2024-02-04 | Acme Klein BottleLatest 20+ point return | 6581 | 161 | 62 |