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 orderStarting in about the 11th century, philosophers in India of the Navya-Nyāya school adopted a similar artificial dialect of Sanskrit, to make their arguments precise. Of course there was no computer implementation backing the formalization, but the goal was similar: to have a language that remains a subset of natural language and (somewhat) intelligible to a typical educated person, yet is a formal language with unambiguous meanings. A good description of this language is in a couple of papers 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
- 349
- Total comments
- 129
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-06-25 | Attempto Controlled English | lelf | 1 | 0 |
| 2017-10-03 | Attempto Controlled English | mrkgnao | 3 | 0 |
| 2018-09-01 | Attempto Controlled English | BerislavLopac | 2 | 0 |
| 2019-09-12 | Attempto Controlled EnglishFirst breakout · Best thread | solarkraft | 243 | 60 |
| 2023-05-14 | Attempto Controlled LanguageLatest 20+ point return | sublinear | 100 | 69 |