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.
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HN comment orderWow, the comments in this thread are quite harsh. Even though I might not use it, this looks like an awesome project - kudos to the author for finding (& implementing) ways to improve something as mundane as ls. I've long been stuck on finding a suitable (perfect?) project idea to play with Rust but exa is making me think through again! Thanks for sharing this and also for your screencasts. I'd definitely spend a lazy evening watching you program…
I used to think exa was a good ls replacement, but I found out that it's significantly slower than ls[0]. Heck, it's even slower than lf[1]. Quite frankly I didn't know what to think, but I removed the alias ls=exa. 0: https://asciinema.org/a/454216 vs https://asciinema.org/a/454217 1: https://asciinema.org/a/454213
What's wrong with "echo *" all of a sudden?
I like the tree+stats view
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
- 1145
- Total comments
- 561
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-08-03 | Exa, a modern replacement for lsFirst breakout · Best thread | r0muald | 740 | 403 |
| 2018-11-14 | Exa: modern replacement for ls | ingve | 1 | 0 |
| 2018-12-06 | Exa – a modern replacement for ls | tambourine_man | 2 | 0 |
| 2018-12-11 | Exa – a modern replacement for ls | gozzoo | 2 | 2 |
| 2019-02-05 | exa – a modern replacement for ls | bpierre | 3 | 0 |
| 2019-03-08 | Exa – A Modern Replacement for Ls | atrudeau | 3 | 1 |
| 2019-07-19 | Exa, a Modern Replacement for Ls | UkiahSmith | 1 | 0 |
| 2019-07-30 | Exa – A Modern Replacement for Ls | Munksgaard | 36 | 6 |
| 2020-12-03 | Exa – A Modern Replacement for ‘Ls’ | modinfo | 2 | 0 |
| 2021-12-18 | Exa - A Modern Replacement for lsHall induction · Latest 20+ point return | gilad | 355 | 149 |