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 orderTwice in the last decade I've been completely stuck on something, googled extensively, finally found the answer ... which I wrote, on Usenet, 25 years ago.
This is the hardcore version of the more common "Google for help on something and get your own blog post/Stack Overflow answer coming up"! :-)
Wow that was a nice surprise! And a funny but fantastic journey from being unaware of su to being the author of an important implementation of the same. As for sudo being preferred on Macs, it's the same in Ubuntu world. In fact the default Ubuntu install doesn't even create a password for the root account, as a result I tend to use sudo on Ubuntu and derivates and su on RHEL based distros. Also as far as I know…
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
- 767
- Total comments
- 171
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-10-12 | From Novice to Master, and Back AgainFirst breakout | walrus | 351 | 27 |
| 2015-02-24 | From Novice to Master, and Back Again | jcr | 6 | 1 |
| 2016-02-29 | From Novice to Master, and Back Again (2013) | ksml | 2 | 0 |
| 2021-04-09 | From Novice to Master, and Back Again (2013) | colinprince | 2 | 0 |
| 2022-08-09 | From novice to master, and back again (2013)Hall induction · Best thread · Latest 20+ point return | omn1 | 406 | 143 |