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 orderIf you are along time GNU user (meaning GNU grep, sed, less, awk, find, tar, etc., etc.) this will be way more frustrating than you realize to use. Having lived in the UNIX days, I can still remember the subtle differences in all the command-line tools driving me nuts. This is actually how the GNU tools became popular even before Linux was a thing, you could install them on irix, hpux, sun, any UNIX, and you wouldn't have to deal…
An explanation of their motivations would be helpful. I’m sure it’s great for anyone that already knows they want it, but what about everyone else? My experience managing many different flavors of *nix has been that the GNU utils are far superior, so I don’t understand wanting to replace them. My first guess is this is targeted at embedded use, but that’s pure conjecture.
Is this project still active? It looked promising when I checked a while back, but there seems to be no new developments since April.
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
- 390
- Total comments
- 322
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-07-03 | Chimera Linux: a Linux distribution based on FreeBSD userland and LLVMFirst breakout | todsacerdoti | 111 | 110 |
| 2023-02-09 | Chimera Linux | curling_grad | 3 | 0 |
| 2023-12-16 | Chimera LinuxBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | MaximilianEmel | 267 | 207 |
| 2025-12-07 | Chimera Linux | doener | 5 | 5 |
| 2025-12-14 | Chimera LinuxHall induction | dtj1123 | 4 | 0 |