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 appreciated that smoke comes out of the battery if you short it :) Edit: I am ex EE. I will note that it's horrible using this view. It is marginally more horrible than using breadboards in reality. Schematics exist because reality tends to suck or have inconsistencies. For example TO-99 packages come in different pin orders, so 2N3904 has the opposite order to a BC547. Also breadboards tend not to have full length bus bars depending on vendors. At…
hey y'all, I'm Kenneth, founder of Diode. Cool to see this pop up here! We have lots planned for Diode and we'd love to hear what folks think about the product so far / what they could see it being used for in the future. We started building Diode seriously at the beginning of September after I put a weekend project teaser out on twitter and got a decent amount of attention[1]. We want to build tools that make it…
Wished there was more of a Minecraft style of control. A bit hard to do changes using a touch interface (example iPhone or iPad)
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
- 632
- Total comments
- 128
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-10-30 | Diode: Build, program, and simulate hardware projects in the browserFirst breakout | bookofjoe | 153 | 26 |
| 2026-02-20 | Diode – Build, program, and simulate hardwareBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | rossant | 469 | 101 |
| 2026-02-21 | Diode – Build, program, and simulate hardware in the browser | tzury | 5 | 0 |
| 2026-02-22 | Diode – Build, program, and simulate hardware in the browser | punnerud | 5 | 1 |