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 orderIn an authoritarian regime with large masses of human and technological resources determined to have control over its population, nothing is really secure. Sending a message that can't be read by a third party? You're suspect. Have an illegal app installed on your registered "report to big brother" phone? Expect an unfriendly visit by big brother police. Don't have a "big brother" phone? There are various ways of sniffing you out. The bottom line is that while technology can help…
There are things you wonder why they don't exist. Then there are things where you wonder why only bad implementations exits. I'd so far refused to install messenger apps on my phone. Briar changed that. It looks like they know what they want to exist and are not taking shortcuts. So far my contact list has exactly one entry: The dude who showed me Briar exists :-)
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
- 468
- Total comments
- 195
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-09-11 | Briar doesn't use a central server, messages are synced directly between devices | curtis | 2 | 0 |
| 2017-09-26 | Briar, for who needs a safe, and robust way to communicate | tyler33 | 2 | 0 |
| 2018-08-31 | Briar ProjectFirst breakout | ColanR | 114 | 10 |
| 2020-08-02 | Briar ProjectBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | fishmaster | 350 | 185 |