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 orderSeeing tools like this pop up periodically and get so many upvotes it seems a lot of people aren't aware of great tools. It would be interesting to see a gallery of Unix classic/modern tools presented in a structured course. Is anyone aware of one? Something like images (imagemagick), video (ffmpeg/vlc), audio (sox), phone (asterisk/etc.), SMS (pdus/various), linguistics (various), classification (NNs), version control, snapshots, clustering (PXE/corosync/pacemaker), security (kernel toolkits), transaction systems…
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
- 1444
- Total comments
- 144
100+ points or 50+ comments
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-12-06 | Fred's ImageMagick Scripts | almondsays | 6 | 0 |
| 2018-03-24 | Fred's ImageMagick ScriptsFirst breakout · Best thread | primogen | 1149 | 100 |
| 2020-03-25 | Imagemagick (2018) | brian_herman__ | 1 | 0 |
| 2020-09-08 | Fred's ImageMagick Scripts | pmoriarty | 1 | 0 |
| 2022-02-18 | Fred's ImageMagick ScriptsHall induction · Latest 20+ point return | beepbooptheory | 284 | 44 |
| 2025-12-20 | Fred's ImageMagick Scripts | precompute | 3 | 0 |