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 orderA number of academics seem to have very simple HTML pages like this one. See Knuth's page for example. Most of the Comp Sci professors at my school had pages like this also. Only thing I don't like about reading them on a modern wide monitor is that the lines get too long. A bit of CSS to set a max width and a margin and they'd be near-perfect. Fortunately there's reader mode.
I worked in Bell Labs from 2012 to 2018, unfortunately then it was a shadow of its former self. The MBAs had taken over. While there Weldon tried to pivot the place from being ‘like twitter’ to an incubator to a like a startup. He got an Apple Watch so we were going to be a wearables lab. He threw together a book on the supposed future of networks and conspired to get it to the NYT #1 by forcing…
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
- 457
- Total comments
- 134
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-09-20 | Dennis Ritchie's old home page | mrzool | 3 | 0 |
| 2021-10-11 | Dennis Ritchie Home Page | Ice_cream_suit | 3 | 0 |
| 2022-01-29 | Dennis Ritchie Home Page (2006)First breakout | mehdix | 223 | 79 |
| 2023-06-04 | Dennis Ritchie’s page on Bell Labs websiteBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | massimosgrelli | 225 | 55 |
| 2024-10-08 | Dennis Ritchie Home Page (2006) | HiPHInch | 3 | 0 |