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 remeber these days. I worked at this time for studiVZ - a german social network (still exist, but nobody is using it anymore) and this leaked was caused by a misconfiguration in their Apache setup. In 2008 studiVZ was sued by Facebook. They said we theft their PHP, CSS/JS "code". (http://techcrunch.com/2008/07/18/facebook-sues-german-social...). Indeed, the first version of studiVZ was inspired by Facebook. Our founder had seen FB in 2005 the first time in the US, but it wasn't possible to…
It wasn't actually stolen as it says in the README. It was a misconfigured Apache server which leaked raw, unprocessed PHP code. I received the code to home.php and profile.php but I didn't save it at the time (I was very very new to learning PHP and didn't realize the significance of what I was looking at). Still really cool to see.
// Holy shit, is this the cleanest fucking frontend file you've ever seen?! ubersearch($_GET, $embedded = false, $template = true); Yup, that tracks
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
- 573
- Total comments
- 238
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-10-04 | Facebook PHP Source Code from August 2007 | sp8 | 1 | 0 |
| 2013-10-12 | Facebook PHP Source Code from August 2007First breakout · Best thread | scapbi | 319 | 141 |
| 2015-03-23 | Facebook PHP Source Code from August 2007 | avinassh | 3 | 0 |
| 2016-01-30 | Facebook's homepage source code leaked (2007) | karlcoelho1 | 3 | 0 |
| 2016-12-16 | Facebook PHP Source Code from August 2007 | vhost- | 3 | 0 |
| 2020-01-29 | Facebook Source Code from August 2007 | firefoxd | 14 | 1 |
| 2020-01-30 | Facebook PHP Source Code from August 2007Hall induction · Latest 20+ point return | patrickdevivo | 229 | 96 |
| 2023-07-10 | Facebook PHP Source Code from August 2007 | vincent_s | 1 | 0 |