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 orderDagnabbit I overslept! I use BitBar on my macbook to display the epoch second on my menu bar in a format like this: { 1,600,003,345 } The script to do that is: EPOCH=$(/bin/date +%s | /usr/local/bin/sed ':a;s/\B[0-9]\{3\}\>/,&/;ta') echo "{" "${EPOCH}" "}" Separating the epoch into thousands was done with the help of this Stackoverflow question: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/113795/add-thousand... EDIT: This is a much simpler way of writing it, thanks to GNU Coreutils' "numfmt" EPOCH=$(/bin/date +%s |…
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38266923, which got there first (today)
That's like what? 0x53724E00? It's not even a round number. Silly humans.
$ /bin/date +%s 1269411909 $ /bin/date --date=@1269411909 Tue Mar 23 23:25:09 PDT 2010 $ Easy, scriptable, omnipresent. Why would you bother with a web page?
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- Breakout years
- 3
- Total points
- 736
- Total comments
- 108
100+ points or 50+ comments
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010-03-24 | Epoch Converter | ryszard99 | 6 | 2 |
| 2014-05-13 | Today at 16:53:20 GMT, it'll be 1400000000 in Unix time.First breakout | ozh | 170 | 57 |
| 2020-09-13 | Happy 1600M epoch secondBest thread | bajsejohannes | 373 | 48 |
| 2023-11-14 | Happy 1700M Epoch SecondLatest 20+ point return | jackconsidine | 187 | 1 |