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 orderNo relation to the link, but does anyone else remember these books? Algebra the Easy Way - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6781.Algebra_the_Easy_Wa... Trigonometry the Easy Way - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2077099.Trigonometry_the... Calculus the Easy Way - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3074478-calculus-the-eas... I read these in 5th grade or so and learned most of middle school and high school math just from those. They're written as a fantasy novel in which the characters discover the relevant…
> Obviously 1 minute is a very small quantity of time compared with a whole week. Indeed, our forefathers considered it small as compared with an hour, and called it “one minùte,” meaning a minute fraction–namely one sixtieth–of an hour. When they came to require still smaller subdivisions of time, they divided each minute into 60 still smaller parts, which, in Queen Elizabeth's days, they called “second minùtes” (i.e.: small quantities of the second order of minuteness). Nowadays we call…
I'd like this book it the units were converted into Metric for a worldwide usage.
The book is sometimes confusing. See https://math.stackexchange.com/q/5027820 for example.
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
- 813
- Total comments
- 168
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-10-18 | Calculus Made Easy (1910)First breakout | luisb | 378 | 68 |
| 2020-12-19 | Calculus Made Easy by Silvanus P. Thompson | happy-go-lucky | 3 | 0 |
| 2021-03-29 | Calculus Made Easy by Silvanus P. Thompson | MarcScott | 2 | 0 |
| 2021-07-28 | Calculus Made Easy (1910)Best thread · Latest 20+ point return | fortran77 | 417 | 97 |
| 2023-01-17 | Show HN: Calculus Made EasyHall induction | yaa_minu | 3 | 0 |
| 2023-04-01 | Calculus Made Easy | georgehill | 1 | 1 |
| 2023-04-02 | Calculus Made Easy | olalonde | 1 | 0 |
| 2023-10-24 | Calculus Made Easy by Silvanus P. Thompson What One Fool Can Do, Another Can | napsternxg | 6 | 1 |
| 2025-02-09 | Calculus Made Easy | bilsbie | 1 | 1 |
| 2026-02-15 | Calculus Made Easy (1910) | Tomte | 1 | 0 |