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 orderThe problem will solve itself when the price of an ipv4 address becomes prohibitive. Either that, or telcos will see ipv4 addresses as a valuable source of revenue and intentionally drag their feet. And then the internet will die.
This comes up every so often but it's a fundamentally broken idea and always has been. You can't fit a quart into a pint pot, and you can't fit more than 2^30 routeable endpoints into the IPv4 internet no matter how clever you are (and you'd have a terminally fragmented address space long before you reach 2^30). So as long as there's even one non-upgraded router on the Internet, any "compatible extension" of IPv4 will route packets to the wrong…
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
- 177
- Total comments
- 236
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008-05-18 | The IPv6 mess | anr | 2 | 0 |
| 2010-04-02 | The IPv6 Mess | tragiclos | 46 | 37 |
| 2021-07-28 | The IPv6 Mess (2002) | juped | 2 | 0 |
| 2021-08-16 | The IPv6 Mess (2002) | commandersaki | 1 | 0 |
| 2021-09-21 | The IPv6 Mess | commandersaki | 3 | 0 |
| 2022-01-01 | The IPv6 Mess (2002)First breakout | commandersaki | 29 | 68 |
| 2023-08-14 | D J Bernstein – The IPv6 messBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | lproven | 93 | 131 |
| 2026-04-16 | The IPv6 Mess (2002) | tgma | 1 | 0 |