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 orderQuite common sense, but not a new issue. "Color Set" books have been sold for decades, and there's a number of sites (I have a few bookmarked [0]-[4]), that have great JS implementations. But it's a great explanation. I think this is something that everyone should know, so the more material out there, the better. [0] W3Schools is not everyone's cup of tea, but they have a great section on colors: https://www.w3schools.com/colors [1] Colorblind design is important. This helps with…
The author is missing one law of design that should be explicitly stated here: different things should look different and things that look different should be different. The example under "Don’t dance all over the color wheel" is a great example of a violation of this rule: it goes from showing five different things in bars to showing two groups of two plus one different thing (or a group of two and a group of three, it's actually not very…
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
- 1144
- Total comments
- 163
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-09-06 | Common color mistakes and how to avoid themFirst breakout · Best thread | hunvreus | 844 | 118 |
| 2023-10-15 | Common color mistakes and how to avoid them (2020) | Kurfofl | 2 | 0 |
| 2023-12-01 | How to pick more beautiful colors for your data visualizationsLatest 20+ point return | williamwoodhq | 298 | 45 |