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 orderIf you haven't encountered this browser before, I find it fascinating. It's meant for devices that aren't necessarily computers. For example, someone making a digital "sign" can use HTML and CSS, or dynamic HTML motion graphics, to create their content, and run it in Flow. It doesn't have to be able to run, say, Google Docs. However, the developer wrote a blog post about getting Google Docs to run, by fixing the necessary bugs and adding the necessary features…
This is almost certainly going to be proprietary, so it's nothing to hold your breath over. Ekioh makes enterprise software for set-top boxes. They do know their browser rendering, though: they stripped Webkit down to have a 24mb memory footprint.
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
- 342
- Total comments
- 87
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-11-28 | Flow Browser – A parallel, multithreaded HTML browserFirst breakout | robin_reala | 123 | 46 |
| 2021-03-11 | Flow Browser – The parallel, multithreaded HTML browser | Quillbert182 | 1 | 0 |
| 2021-03-16 | Ekioh is making a new browser designed for parallel processing | PhilosAccnting | 2 | 0 |
| 2022-03-01 | Flow Browser: Flow makes HTML fasterBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | ksec | 216 | 41 |