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 number of years ago there was an incident in Sweden where a tiny crack was discovered in a container that had been used to transport nuclear waste from one of Sweden's reactors. This caused a lot of media attention and some politicians made statements about how this was unacceptable and that they would look into it. One reporter interviewed an older physicist that worked with radiation protection for the government and asked him if a substantial amount of radiation…
I appreciate this is supposed to be educational, but I have to wonder something regarding this point: > The radiation exposure from consuming a banana is approximately 1% of the average daily exposure to radiation, which is 100 banana equivalent doses (BED). If your scale starts at 100, maybe it’s not such a great educational example. If the Average Daily Exposure (ADE) is 100 BED, the number inflates in a way that make the values seem unnecessarily high. It’s implicitly…
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
- 575
- Total comments
- 146
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010-06-07 | Banana equivalent dose | hga | 6 | 0 |
| 2010-06-14 | Banana equivalent doseFirst breakout · Best thread | soyelmango | 470 | 84 |
| 2011-02-27 | Banana equivalent dose | shawndumas | 8 | 0 |
| 2011-03-21 | Banana equivalent dose | shawndumas | 2 | 0 |
| 2016-08-04 | BED (Banana equivalent dose) | adgasf | 1 | 0 |
| 2019-08-25 | Banana Equivalent Dose | tosh | 1 | 0 |
| 2022-12-19 | Banana Equivalent Dose | sph | 2 | 0 |
| 2023-02-07 | Banana Equivalent Dose | tosh | 1 | 0 |
| 2023-05-02 | Banana Equivalent DoseHall induction · Latest 20+ point return | sph | 84 | 62 |