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 orderContent Defined Chunking is one of my favorite algorithms because it has some "magic" similar to HyperLogLogs, Bloom filters, etc... This algorithm is good to explain to people, to get them inspired by computer science. I usually explain the simplest variant with rolling hashes. It is interesting what the result will be (average saving on deduplication) if it is applied globally to a large-scale blob storage, such as Amazon S3 or Google Drive (we need metadata storage about chunks, and…
I’ve also been doing lots of experimenting with Content Defined Chunking since last year (for https://bonanza.build/). One of the things I discovered is that the most commonly used algorithm FastCDC (also used by this project) can be improved significantly by looking ahead. An implementation of that can be found here: https://github.com/buildbarn/go-cdc
Basically, CDC File Transfer is a way for streaming syncing and streaming files from Windows to Linux.
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
- 1310
- Total comments
- 322
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-01-06 | Google open sourced CDC File Transfer from the ashes of Stadia | Poudlardo | 4 | 1 |
| 2023-01-08 | CDC File TransferFirst breakout · Best thread | cglong | 917 | 219 |
| 2025-10-01 | CDC File TransferLatest 20+ point return | GalaxySnail | 389 | 102 |