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 worked in video games reverse engineering for several years, so I'll take the occasion to quote a recent tweet from a friend/colleague of mine: > At HandmadeCon @mike_acton brought up the game data format problem. I've reverse engineered hundreds of proprietary formats from games, and he's right that all I would need to make things simple is a basic description of the file data. Just struct declarations are enough. No encryption has stopped me, I always find the data…
Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:G6q-II8... Archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20201128022219/http://fileformat...
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
- 295
- Total comments
- 113
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-12-22 | File Format documentation wiki | uaygsfdbzf | 1 | 0 |
| 2015-04-13 | Let's Solve the File Format Problem | xai3luGi | 1 | 0 |
| 2015-12-09 | File format wikiFirst breakout · Best thread | chei0aiV | 167 | 41 |
| 2020-11-28 | Let's Solve the File Format Problem (2019)Latest 20+ point return | pabs3 | 126 | 72 |