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 downloaded this and played around with it a little. I’m a little skeptical of something that ditches traditional music notation for piano roll, doesn’t offer any ways to reorganize sections of your song, and then gives you a bunch of tools for key signatures, modes, polymeter, and microtonal music. I’m trying to think of a programming analogy—it’s like checking out a new programming language that has dependent types, higher-kinded types and monads, and a borrow checker, but no strings…
Really cool project! I really liked the UI of this app. It feels very smooth and looks amazing. Also, I went to poke around the source code: https://github.com/helio-fm/helio-workstation It looks to be a really well written and maintained C++ project. It's built on top of the JUCE framework [0]. Builds super easy on Linux with minimal dependencies. The coding style is C#-like - very easy to read. I can't say anything about the main functionality though, as I have zero…
Wanted to share this gem here, as I nearly forgot it existed myself.
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
- 378
- Total comments
- 94
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-04-26 | Helio – distraction-free libre music composition software | app4soft | 2 | 0 |
| 2021-09-01 | Helio Project: libre music composition softwareFirst breakout | danbolt | 183 | 41 |
| 2023-12-09 | Helio FM – libre music composition software | atoav | 1 | 1 |
| 2024-01-10 | Helio: Libre Music Composition SoftwareBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | generichuman | 192 | 52 |