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 orderThe author ought to look into and write about the Common Lisp condition system, which allows error handlers to invoke restarts at different parts of the call stack. [1] The long-story-short on them is that they decouple the treatment of exceptional situations (or conditions) into three orthogonal roles: signaling the condition (akin to “throwing”), handling the condition (akin to “catching”), and recovering from the condition (which has no resemblance in popular languages). The signaler, the handler, and the…
I was completely baffled by "algebraic effects" for years. They looked far too confusing for me to want to spend my time on them, and took the "Don’t feel like you have to [get curious about them]" approach. But then at some point it struck me: underlying all these effect systems is just passing stuff in. So I developed my own effect system for Haskell, Bluefin[1], based on capabilities, which means the "capability to perform some effect" is represented by…
Previous threads: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20496043 [22/7/2019] (103 comments) https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/cjcwmu [29/7/2019] (46 comments) https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/cfz8q0 [21/7/2019] (94 comments) https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/cfz8lo [21/7/2019] (49 comments) P.S.: discussions found with a site I'm building: https://discussions.xojoc.pw/?url=https%3A//overreacted.io/a...
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- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 372
- Total comments
- 194
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-07-21 | Algebraic Effects for the Rest of Us | danabramov | 12 | 0 |
| 2019-07-22 | Algebraic Effects for the Rest of UsFirst breakout · Best thread | alaaf | 239 | 103 |
| 2021-10-12 | Algebraic Effects for the Rest of Us | weatherlight | 4 | 2 |
| 2022-09-05 | Algebraic Effects for the Rest of Us | spinningslate | 3 | 0 |
| 2023-12-17 | Algebraic Effects for the Rest of Us (2019) | ssfrr | 3 | 0 |
| 2024-06-28 | Algebraic Effects for the Rest of Us | yinso | 3 | 0 |
| 2025-10-21 | Algebraic Effects for the Rest of Us | fanf2 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026-05-26 | Algebraic Effects for the Rest of UsHall induction · Latest 20+ point return | satvikpendem | 107 | 89 |