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 feel obliged to mention Fiddler. The tool I loved almost 20 years back and felt like it came from future. IIRC it was/is more powerful than Charles. Fiddler was Windows only but at one time they had builds for other platforms in works. Sadly they got acquired which changed their roadmap, and I had also moved on from Windows. https://www.telerik.com/fiddler
I actually use a local instance of nginx/openresty as my web debugging proxy. I should write a blog on it or something, since it seems like few people do. It's free. It's a breeze to set up, all you need to do is point it at the upstream server you are testing, and it has lua support so you can write code and modify requests on the fly, strip headers, inject things with code. All the work is already done…
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
- 438
- Total comments
- 183
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-06-26 | Charles – Web Debugging Proxy ApplicationFirst breakout | punnerud | 116 | 65 |
| 2021-11-23 | Charles – Web Debugging Proxy | thunderbong | 2 | 0 |
| 2025-12-20 | Charles ProxyBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | handfuloflight | 320 | 118 |