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 orderI like how it trains you in noticing issues in alignment, spacing, font setting etc. But as others noted it mixes clear mistakes with highly subjective opinions around size, shape and color choices and even dark patterns while suggesting to use this test to filter out job candidates for design positions [0]. While there might be some merit to this method for educational purposes I'm generally wary of fully automated assessments as they often include hidden biases like in this…
I dislike that this elevates, canonizes, design decisions out of context. However, this is how we train machine learning systems. I enjoy this as a social or artistic commentary in that way. How would you like to be trained this way, or what do you learn from being trained this way. It implies, all knowledge is a convention we adopt and the ability to match or reproduce it. --- I can do what the task asks, almost entirely, score TDB…
That's a bit biased. "Easy 2/18" insists that "Invite friends..." is the default button and should be blue, while "Skip" button should be white which makes look like it's not a button at all, so a user does not realize that he can skip the useless spamming "Invite" step. I think it's a bad design.
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
- 648
- Total comments
- 263
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-11-29 | Can't Unsee – A game to explain the pain of front-end development | mmmulani | 3 | 0 |
| 2019-02-05 | Can't Unsee: Select the design that is most correct | abkumar | 69 | 20 |
| 2020-05-24 | Can't Unsee | lelf | 2 | 0 |
| 2021-03-15 | A game where you need to pick the design that is most correct | navidkhn1 | 2 | 0 |
| 2021-05-17 | Can't UnseeFirst breakout · Best thread | rajlego | 393 | 126 |
| 2022-11-21 | Can't UnseeLatest 20+ point return | aaossa | 178 | 116 |
| 2025-04-21 | Can't Unsee (2021) | isp | 1 | 1 |