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 orderFor you vim-lovers out there, DrawIt accomplishes most of the same things: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=40
How far can we take this? What is literate programming at the extreme? I often draw when I need to work out an algorithm in my head. I wish there were a way to embed my doodles in code comments. Stuff like circle geometry are hard to explain without dense pixels. I've tried using various literate programming pre-processors that let me write comments in Markdown/HTML and embed whatever, but it makes my UNIX-minimalism-sense freak out, and it's super awkward having…
That's pretty awesome.
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
- 257
- Total comments
- 80
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008-04-01 | M-x artist-mode | mattrepl | 2 | 0 |
| 2009-07-30 | Emacs Screencast: Artist Mode - ASCII Photoshop for Emacs | gleb | 3 | 1 |
| 2010-08-02 | Emacs, artist modeFirst breakout · Best thread | VeXocide | 134 | 53 |
| 2015-09-25 | Emacs Artist ModeLatest 20+ point return | brudgers | 118 | 26 |