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’ll never enjoy computing again as much as I did as a teenager with an Amiga 500, a CD ROM with CDs full of mod files and Fred Fish disks, and my trusty 8 bit sampler. Sampling and making extended mixes of favourite rave tunes from the era, recording them to tape and playing them on a Walkman to friends at school who had no idea computers could do such things! Making 15 minute mashups of this and dancing like…
I laughed out loud at this moment, which came a few seconds after starting the sample: "Aaaand we're out of memory." Explains why samples tended to be really short .. and also why some artists (or their labels) did make the investment in studio time & the professionals who knew how to take this tech to the next level. I worked in a 24-track studio in London in the early 90s where dance music was recorded, mixed, and remixed by…
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
- 430
- Total comments
- 149
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-02-04 | Amiga Samplers: Budget dance music in 1990 [video]First breakout | henning | 191 | 53 |
| 2020-07-11 | Amiga Samplers: Budget dance music in 1990 | indigodaddy | 1 | 0 |
| 2023-09-04 | Amiga Samplers: Budget dance music in 1990Best thread · Latest 20+ point return | bane | 238 | 96 |