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 orderThis would have been great 10-20 years ago, or even at the coining of Unix pipes. By today's standards, however, the syntax feels clunky and dated. I'd like to see contemporary shells like nushell and elvish copy these ideas, with attribution of course, in a more modern way. That is the best way I can see to honor this stagnant project: https://github.com/dspinellis/dgsh
Python's mario is another terminal-oriented tool with concurrent task execution, but with async concurrency rather than multiprocess parallelism. For example, to get a bunch of urls concurrently $ mario async-map 'await asks.get ! x.text' < urls.txt https://github.com/python-mario/mario
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13352659
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
- 326
- Total comments
- 72
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-09-30 | Dgsh – directed graph shell | mpweiher | 2 | 0 |
| 2018-05-26 | Dgsh – directed graph shell | glhaynes | 28 | 1 |
| 2019-12-04 | Dgsh – Directed Graph ShellFirst breakout | pcr910303 | 135 | 11 |
| 2025-09-30 | Dgsh – Directed graph shellBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | pabs3 | 161 | 60 |