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 love seeing this here. I use Geany for lots of normal writing and journaling in addition to coding projects. I have added a bunch of little tab-to-activate snippets like inserting the date, time, and weather, inserting a random writing prompt, inserting my global to-do list, etc. I was just going through the prefs today and found the "invert color scheme" option. I inverted Solarized Light and got a beautiful dark scheme I'd never seen before as a result. Not…
I remember using Geany throughout high school for our Java/AP Computer Science classes, where it was the editor you were required to use. While I had it customized as much as the system would allow me, calling it an “IDE” is being a bit generous: my Sublime Text can do much, much more than Geany possibly could, and I’m not sure I would call even that an IDE. Geany is basically just a simple, slightly mediocre GUI text editor-which might…
What advantage does this have over emacs?
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
- 414
- Total comments
- 206
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-03-10 | Geany – Lightweight IDE for Linux and WindowsFirst breakout · Best thread | ausjke | 259 | 92 |
| 2020-06-15 | Geany – A flyweight IDELatest 20+ point return | notRobot | 154 | 113 |
| 2023-02-19 | Geany – The Flyweight IDE | thinkingemote | 1 | 1 |