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 orderA bit off-topic, but it makes me think of how words and their setting has changed over history. In English music at least, words and how they were set was a big deal during the various switches between Catholicism and Protestantism in the 16th Century. Catholicism allowed for polyphonic music, where the words (in latin) were layered to produce very beautiful music. An extreme example is Thomas Tallis's Spem in Alium that has 8 choirs of 5 parts each: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT-ZAAi4UQQ…
Great chart, unfortunate conclusion with some erroneous allusions. Bear with me here: Starting with ABBA, and fully blossomed in the form of Max Martin, Top 40 Pop has been dominated by Swedish composition techniques. Taylor Swift, Britney Spears, Kelly Clarkson, NSYNC, Bieber, Katy Perry, Demi Lovato...Max Martin's fingerprints are all over the hits. He has a defined style as well. Balanced lines. It's brilliant. Thus, it's not about the performers if you want to study the composition - you have…
Beautiful visualization of data as usual, Pudding.cool never miss. It indeed appears that we're increasingly leaning towards more repetition, I suppose it's more appealing to our TikTok-conditioned minds.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18508243
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- Breakout years
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- Total points
- 319
- Total comments
- 134
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