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 orderHa, sweet memories. I am 40 now; back in 2004-2006, for two years I was one of the youngest professors in Italy, teaching "compilers and programming languages". I still feel so fortunate to have had that experience. To help my students save the relatively huge amount of money to buy the dragon book(s), I created a condensed version of the parts that were required for the course - and I didn't charge anything for it, unlike what usually happens pretty…
While somewhat irrelevant for a majority of developers, it feels great to understand how computers actually work. Even many higher education IT programs often barely cover the underpinnings anymore. I'm currently embarking on a fun little "from first principles" challenge: Imagine a post-apocalyptic world where computers are a relic of the past. You stumble upon a functioning device with a screen and keyboard. When powered on, all you get is a bare metal "assembly interpreter". You can type in riscv64…
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
- 933
- Total comments
- 140
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-08-13 | An Intro to CompilersFirst breakout · Best thread | luu | 687 | 104 |
| 2020-06-20 | An Intro to Compilers (2017)Latest 20+ point return | memexy | 245 | 36 |
| 2022-10-27 | An Intro to Compilers | metadat | 1 | 0 |