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 orderAs always gets brought up when GNU parallel is mentioned: xargs does most of the use cases you'd need for parallel. xargs -n1 -P4 Would be at most one arg from the arg list run with 4 jobs. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28357997/running-programs...
GNU parallel devs really want you to cite their work... it's just a tool folks, it's like citing the manual of a hammer.
I largely prefer paexec. The problem with paexec is its strange build system — you have to build mk-configure before you can build paexec. Unless you use Debian, where it is already packaged.
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
- 354
- Total comments
- 162
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-08-27 | GNU parallel | heywire | 4 | 1 |
| 2016-09-14 | GNU parallel, that's when Unix philosophy rocks | chromano | 2 | 0 |
| 2016-12-26 | GNU ParallelFirst breakout · Best thread | ingve | 205 | 83 |
| 2022-04-02 | GNU Parallel | todd8 | 100 | 68 |
| 2023-07-14 | Parallel – shell tool for executing jobs in parallel using one or more computersLatest 20+ point return | kristianpaul | 43 | 10 |