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 orderFascinating. Many years ago, when I wanted to become a programmer and I didn't know anything about code, I used to fantasize and be amazed by programs. Code was like dark magic. This is how I feel today about machine learning. Neural networks, liquid state machines. It's wonderful voodoo to my eyes. I hope one day I get to work in that field, it seems so useful for solving big world problems. I have notice a definite rise in articles…
I sometimes reminisce about the 2010-2020 deep learning and reinforcement learning etc era, as a student I did some projects in that domain back then and it felt very approachable and relatively easy to get into it compared to how I (most likely subjectively) see it today as a developer (in a different field). I remember I doing a project in my second bachelor semester, where I generated random 64x64 images of a simple maze with a start and finish…
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11811118
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
- 362
- Total comments
- 20
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-05-31 | Deep Reinforcement Learning: Pong from PixelsFirst breakout · Best thread | Smerity | 189 | 13 |
| 2017-08-28 | Deep Reinforcement Learning: Pong from Pixels | signa11 | 4 | 0 |
| 2018-08-18 | Deep Reinforcement Learning: Pong from Pixels (2016) | sonabinu | 57 | 1 |
| 2022-12-31 | Deep Reinforcement Learning: Pong from Pixels (2016) | gone35 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025-02-06 | Deep Reinforcement Learning: Pong from Pixels (2016)Latest 20+ point return | Anon84 | 111 | 6 |