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 orderSmalltalk remains my all time favorite language. I started programming in the 1960s, with BASIC and FORTRAN (FORTRAN II, in fact, from McCracken's famous "Guide"), and before I quit coding professionally, implemented production systems in more than two dozen different languages. Wrote the most lines of code in Java, but the most interesting systems in Fortran, Pascal, Object Pascal (and one in Concurrent Pascal). Liked LISP least of all, followed closely by C++ and COBOL (although APL would probably be…
I’m always amused that this is called a magazine. At least this particular issue. It’s nearly 500 pages long!! My favorite chapter in the tome is the one by Peter Deutsch on control structures. Starts on page 322. I did Smalltalk for 20 years. I don’t have right words to express how much I loved the Smalltalk block closure, the fact that it was a reified object type that you could extend and use polymorphically is one of the unsung…
Byte Magazine was awesome. So much more technical and in-depth than what computer magazines offer today. One of the most interesting issues I ever read was an early 1990's issue that I found several years later (but before we had internet outside of AOL's walled garden). It had two major stories: new operating systems and new processors. It covered OS/2, how the new NT micro-kernel could host different personalities like Windows and POSIX, OSF/Mach and this object-oriented OS called Taligent…
I think this was the first issue of Byte I bought, I remember hoovering up every little detail at the time.
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
- 366
- Total comments
- 194
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-01-13 | Byte Magazine Smalltalk-80 Issue | t1m | 79 | 32 |
| 2017-08-15 | BYTE Magazine's Smalltalk issue (1981) | helloworld | 22 | 3 |
| 2019-01-17 | Byte Magazine Volume 06 Number 08 – Smalltalk | pplonski86 | 3 | 0 |
| 2019-01-30 | Byte Magazine Volume 06 Number 08 – Smalltalk | grzm | 3 | 1 |
| 2019-05-26 | Byte Magazine – Smalltalk (1981)First breakout | tosh | 123 | 42 |
| 2022-08-11 | Byte Magazine Special Issue: Smalltalk (1984)Hall induction · Best thread · Latest 20+ point return | PaulHoule | 136 | 116 |