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 orderThis is an excellent course and helped me get my current job. My background is chemistry/chemical engineering. I had applied for a data scientist position. Phone interview included a problem where I was asked about my solution's complexity. I admitted I didn't know about it. Still got called back for an interview on site, but the weekend before I powered through this course. Unsurprisingly, it came up in the on-site and they were really pleased I had learnt about it…
When I first tried this course a few month ago, the little helpers (think clippy) were driving me nuts! Half way through writing a line of code they would pop up and tell me that my code couldn't execute, maybe I should add a semi colon. It's really distracting and of course code can't execute when you are in the middle of typing an if-statement. It is not helpful at all. On top of that there's no "submit" button (because…
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
- 987
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-03-15 | Khan Academy: AlgorithmsFirst breakout | lobo_tuerto | 358 | 69 |
| 2017-02-15 | AlgorithmsBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | rsandhu | 624 | 156 |
| 2018-12-06 | Algorithms on Khan Academy | Nuance | 2 | 0 |
| 2019-01-09 | Algorithms | headalgorithm | 3 | 0 |