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 loved reading this, because it feels like it's only the start. Now I'm really curious (and if anyone can point me to resources) -- 1) Surely there are a bunch of more obvious optimizations, like don't place candies where they would fall because of gravity and nothing supporting them underneath, or always placing the candies in order of largest to smallest, and ignore anything symmetrical or rotationally equivalent to a previous solution... and how much would this reduce the…
The very first line is "Candy Japan ships candy to subscribers twice a month." I read that and had to pause. Wow. I don't think if I tried for months that I could have done a better job describing _any_ business in such a small number of words. And that line and the last line are the only "marketing" this article does. It's subtle too, because the first line is completely necessary to introduce why the author wanted to algorithmically…
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
- 231
- Total comments
- 112
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-11-17 | Algorithmic fitting of Japanese candyFirst breakout | bemmu | 114 | 50 |
| 2019-02-09 | Algorithmic fitting of japanese candy | tzhenghao | 1 | 0 |
| 2024-06-19 | Algorithmic fitting of Japanese candyBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | EndXA | 116 | 62 |