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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.
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HN comment orderI had no idea you could connect a Game Boy to a sewing machine. The Mario embroidery patterns actually look kind of cute now that they are working. It is nice to see people preserving weird pieces of history like this.
> Let me just say that the way these 3 machines handle everything is dumb. There's absolutely nothing intuitive about using 0x14 as a replacement for zero. There's absolutely nothing intuitive about using the previous Y coordinate instead of the next one. Two simple explanations. The scheme of using some range of values like this where the midpoint represents 0 is known as a "biased representation". One advantage of it is that it's unsigned, easy to convert to an absolute…
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
- 237
- Total comments
- 29
100+ points or 50+ comments
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-06-05 | Edge of Emulation: Game Boy Sewing MachinesFirst breakout | polm23 | 111 | 21 |
| 2022-04-14 | Edge of Emulation: Game Boy Sewing Machines | quantumwannabe | 2 | 0 |
| 2025-06-19 | Edge of Emulation: Game Boy Sewing Machines | haunter | 2 | 0 |
| 2026-01-14 | Edge of Emulation: Game Boy Sewing MachinesBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | mosura | 122 | 8 |