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 toyed with both, Cathode on the Mac as well as Cool-retro-term on Linux, for video production. The effect and quality is exactly what I want. My only pain is that they both don't fit well into my workflow. Does anyone know a plugin for Blender or Natron that can produce a high quality realistic CRT effect? Preferably with similar flexibility and parameters as Cathode or Cool-retro-term. All the plugins I found were very limited and most of them didn't…
Reminds of "Cathode" app for OSX: http://www.secretgeometry.com/apps/cathode/ it seems they have an iOS version now too that lets you SSH to your servers. Also I believe the demo version would appear as tho the cathode screen was about to fail and get worse and worse.
This is awesome nostalgia, but tell me, for those who have never seen a CRT display, does it have any meaning to you? Seeing this, I wonder if the world has forgotten what a computer is. Now we've got devices, for example phones, and the computer (and the Internet) is right at the surface of the device. When we used CRT displays, we knew our display was just a repurposed television screen that communicated with a separate and discreet computer…
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
- 5
- Total points
- 1322
- Total comments
- 410
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-10-02 | Cool-retro-term: A terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode displayFirst breakout | tasoeur | 246 | 85 |
| 2015-02-23 | Cool-retro-term | thristian | 176 | 47 |
| 2017-10-30 | Cool-retro-term: terminal emulator mimics the look and feel of cathode tubes | jamesbowman | 2 | 0 |
| 2018-06-29 | Cool-retro-term | BerislavLopac | 3 | 0 |
| 2018-10-20 | A good looking terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display | andrewstuart | 3 | 0 |
| 2018-11-28 | Retro-Terminal Emulator | xelxebar | 2 | 0 |
| 2019-10-14 | An 80s Terminal for Modern Computers | m4rtyr | 2 | 0 |
| 2019-11-25 | Cool-Retro-Term | JoachimS | 1 | 0 |
| 2020-07-19 | Cool Retro Term | depressedCorgi | 1 | 0 |
| 2021-03-09 | Cool-Retro-Term (2015) | ddtaylor | 1 | 0 |
| 2022-03-19 | Cool-retro-term: A terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display | marcodiego | 282 | 71 |
| 2023-07-20 | Cool Retro TerminalHall induction · Best thread | qazpot | 305 | 89 |
| 2025-11-24 | Cool-retro-term: terminal emulator which mimics look and feel of CRTsLatest 20+ point return | michalpleban | 298 | 118 |