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 think I will stick with the 10 principles of Dieter Rams: Good design is innovative Good design makes a product useful Good design is aesthetic Good design makes a product understandable Good design is unobtrusive Good design is honest Good design is long-lasting Good design is thorough down to the last detail Good design is environmentally-friendly Good design is as little design as possible
Not actually clear what is open sourced here. The contents and links are to various other sites that arent necessarily open sourced. Almost all of the principles linked do not have any license attached to them. On a side note the principles tend to get written up at the beginning and are based on the thought process and outcomes agreed by a few who were there when it got defined. How often do they change or reviewed adn challenged ?…
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
- 490
- Total comments
- 84
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-12-11 | Design PrinciplesFirst breakout · Best thread | vinnyglennon | 361 | 74 |
| 2021-09-11 | Design Principles: An Open Source CollectionLatest 20+ point return | alokrai | 125 | 10 |
| 2023-02-14 | An open source collection of Design Principles and methods | adrian_mrd | 2 | 0 |
| 2023-11-06 | Design Principles – An open source collection of Design Principles and methods | srirangr | 2 | 0 |