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 orderWe've gone full circle - CSS components to inline CSS-in-HTML back to CSS components. But I actually think I will use this. A big problem with CSS is that you end up making overrides no matter how composable you make the classes. And some simple things (e.g. responsiveness) are unintuitive and / or annoying to do in CSS. Hence Tailwind's "CSS-in-HTML" mini classes. But that doesn't fill the core purpose of CSS, bigger general-purpose classes to avoid repetition. Combine the…
I'm surprised that a lot of the comments seem to be missing the reason that this project exists. In many tailwind projects, you inevitably end up wanting to standardize how a button looks, how a field looks, etc., rather than copy+paste the same 20+ tailwind classes that you need to implement a nice looking button in tailwind. Can you just apply it to `button { @apply flex items-center blahblahblah; }` in app.css? Of course you can. Or you can use…
The carasel component eats up by back button history for some reason.
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
- 713
- Total comments
- 343
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-07-30 | DaisyUI – Tailwind CSS ComponentsFirst breakout · Best thread | jonifico | 474 | 166 |
| 2022-12-12 | DaisyUI components: Use Tailwind CSS but write fewer class names | thunderbong | 1 | 1 |
| 2023-02-13 | DaisyUI – Use Tailwind CSS but write fewer class names | vmoore | 2 | 0 |
| 2023-09-26 | DaisyUI: Component library for Tailwind CSS | KolmogorovComp | 4 | 0 |
| 2024-09-25 | DaisyUI: Tailwind CSS Components | tosh | 1 | 0 |
| 2025-03-15 | Faster, cleaner, easier Tailwind CSS development | selvan | 2 | 0 |
| 2025-06-03 | DaisyUI – Tailwind CSS Components | tosh | 2 | 0 |
| 2025-07-22 | DaisyUI: Tailwind CSS ComponentsHall induction · Latest 20+ point return | a_bored_husky | 227 | 176 |