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 orderWhile this is too simple (even the website admits that a bot could be written in virtually no time to break it), it does make me wonder if you could have a WarioWare CAPCHA. A minigame with extremely vague description that you have to react to quickly to pass. Thinking about it some more it fails the primary criteria for a CAPCHA: it needs to be harder to write the bot that cracks it than each test case, by at…
Unfortunately, just this week someone fine-tuned the Mistral-7B LLM to play DOOM :P https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39813174
> Disclaimer: Don't take this too seriously, this is a little project for fun, if do you know how to code it's pretty easy to break the security of this. I agree. This looks like the problems that are easier to solve by a computer than a human, specially because the time to react is very tight, I had to try 3 or 4 times because I ran out of time. Anyway, if this is secretly tracking the mouse movement…
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
- 1144
- Total comments
- 304
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-05-23 | Doom Captcha | zaczekadam | 3 | 1 |
| 2021-05-24 | DOOM CaptchaFirst breakout · Best thread | jukkakoskinen | 670 | 173 |
| 2024-03-28 | Doom Captcha (2021)Latest 20+ point return | EndXA | 471 | 130 |