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 maybe the best introductions to Lisp i have seen, especially for a js dev like me it could hardly get more approachable and convincing. I could not help but thinking at the end, this is really awesome but s-expressions are kind of hard to read and reason about for my brain, it would be cool if we could generate them from more readable syntax, maybe something like javascript :D . Unfortunately the standard js AST seems to be…
Having played around with Clojure and Scheme for a while (but never got too serious), I always thought homoiconicity and macros were extremely cool concepts, but I never actually ran into a need for them in my everyday work. >Now, if we agree that the ability to manipulate source code is important to us, what kind of languages are most conducive for supporting it? This is useful for compiler programmers, or maybe also those writing source code analyzers/optimizers, but is…
Great article and rest of the blog.
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
- 741
- Total comments
- 306
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-10-25 | An Intuition for Lisp Syntax | tosh | 4 | 0 |
| 2020-10-26 | An Intuition for Lisp SyntaxFirst breakout · Best thread | simonpure | 551 | 197 |
| 2022-02-14 | An Intuition for Lisp Syntax | phoe-krk | 2 | 0 |
| 2022-08-09 | An Intuition for Lisp Syntax | eadmund | 3 | 1 |
| 2022-08-28 | An Intuition for Lisp Syntax (2020)Latest 20+ point return | cercatrova | 175 | 108 |
| 2023-12-11 | An Intuition for Lisp Syntax | ekiauhce | 6 | 0 |