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 someone whose mother tongue isn't English, I find the Urban Dictionary incredibly useful sometimes. It's sad sad it is blocked in virtually any corporate network.
Economist had a good article recently about how this came to be 15 years ago: https://www.economist.com/interactive/christmas-specials/202... Long story short he got lucky in the 90s with an inheritance and a publisher and can now devote his life to researching and publishing English slang. It's also interesting to me because it's a project that started as a book but has now migrated successfully to the Internet, both for publishing the dictionary and for doing research for updates to the dictionary.
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
- 280
- Total comments
- 62
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-10-12 | Green's Online Dictionary of Slang | breadbox | 4 | 0 |
| 2020-03-09 | Green's Dictionary of Slang | fanf2 | 3 | 0 |
| 2024-04-12 | Green's Dictionary of SlangFirst breakout · Best thread | voisin | 159 | 45 |
| 2026-02-08 | Green’s Dictionary of Slang - Five hundred years of the vulgar tongueLatest 20+ point return | mxfh | 114 | 17 |