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Foundational Distributed Systems Papers

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Resurfaced independently across 2 calendar years, with breakout response in 2 of them.

submissions
4
submitters
4
observed span
2021–2023
peak thread · 24 comments
253 pts
latest 20+ return · 2023-04-11
193 pts

Submission timeline

2007–2026

One 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 order

From "Ask HN: Learning about distributed systems?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23932271 : > Papers-we-love > Distributed Systems: https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love/tree/master... > awesome-distributed-systems also has many links to theory: https://github.com/theanalyst/awesome-distributed-systems And links to more lists of distributed systems papers under "Meta Lists": https://github.com/theanalyst/awesome-distributed-systems#me... In reviewing this awesome list, today I learned about this…

Past comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26292627

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

100+ points or 50+ comments

Total points
451

reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking

Total comments
37

reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking

Every submission

DateTitle as submittedByPointsComments
2021-02-28Foundational Distributed Systems PapersFirst breakout · Best threadmastabadtomm25313
2021-03-01Foundational Distributed Systems Papersmark430
2023-04-01Foundational Distributed Systems Papersalexzeitler20
2023-04-11Foundational Distributed Systems PapersLatest 20+ point returnbelter19324