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 orderRelated to the topic of "Emacs is a terminal program with lots of clever hacks to run in a GUI", I recently encountered a big problem on macOS 10.12 "Sierra", which I found reported at [1] The crux of it is that macOS became more strict about what you were doing in GUI- vs non-GUI-threads, and now asserts if you fetch GUI events (I think?) in not the main thread, because of the risk of memory corruption. Ostensibly. This bug…
IMO any "old enough" and complex enough software suffer some kind of "age&complexity" problems... No matter how you design it, unix choose simplicity and we see that today no real unix exists anymore (yes, they do exists per name, but in fact they do not follow unix principles), ITS, Emacs, LispM, Alto, ... choose integration and completeness and except Emacs they are essentially dead... Modern software try to choose modularity and if you find a modern complex enough software you…
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
- 777
- Total comments
- 304
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-10-30 | Buttery Smooth EmacsFirst breakout · Best thread | cheiVia0 | 651 | 229 |
| 2018-02-12 | Buttery smooth emacs | zeveb | 2 | 0 |
| 2018-12-26 | Buttery smooth Emacs (2016)Latest 20+ point return | tosh | 122 | 75 |
| 2022-02-21 | Buttery Smooth Emacs | pcr910303 | 2 | 0 |