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 orderTangential to this article, but can I just say that this is HN at its best. Random, curious, snippets of learning on topics that I can’t imagine hearing about anywhere else. It’s a pure love of knowledge that leads thousands of people to spend Friday night reading a largely useless Wikipedia entry on house burning just because it’s mystery
An oddly interesting mystery. I could imagine a culture deciding that there is some worthy symbolic value in renewal by fire. In Japan there is the Ise Grand Shrine which is torn down and rebuilt every 20 years since year 692. The design is unique, specified exactly and never changes so it is always both ancient and freshly new. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ise_Grand_Shrine
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
- 518
- Total comments
- 208
100+ points or 50+ comments
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-12-07 | Burned house horizonFirst breakout | curtis | 180 | 62 |
| 2020-05-21 | Burned House Horizon | feross | 1 | 0 |
| 2020-05-23 | Burned House Horizon | nanomonkey | 1 | 0 |
| 2020-05-25 | Burned House Horizon | EndXA | 2 | 0 |
| 2020-09-11 | Burned House Horizon | colinprince | 1 | 0 |
| 2020-09-16 | Burned House Horizon | colinprince | 2 | 0 |
| 2021-03-06 | Burned House HorizonHall induction · Best thread · Latest 20+ point return | diodorus | 331 | 146 |