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 orderMy favorite so far is Malbolge[0]: https://github.com/leachim6/hello-world/blob/master/m/malbol... "Malbolge was specifically designed to be almost impossible to use, via a counter-intuitive 'crazy operation', base-three arithmetic and self-altering code.[1] It builds on the difficulty of earlier, challenging esolangs (such as Brainfuck and Befunge), but takes this aspect to the extreme, playing on the entangled histories of computer science and encryption. Weaknesses in the design have been found that make it…
Technically Hello World in PHP is just: Hello World The one they have with <?php print("Hello World"); ?> is also an opcode longer than using <?php echo "Hello World"; ?> because off the FREE on the return value from the print. But a file just containing the string: Hello World and nothing else will generate the same opcodes as the echo version so they are equivalent and you might as well use the shorter form. A file without an opening…
A couple years ago I wrote Hello World in assembly language for Raspberry Pi using 6 entirely different methods, with the code kept as similar as possible so the differences between the methods are easier to compare. https://github.com/ksaj/helloworld
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
- 200
- Total comments
- 127
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-03-26 | Can you name every programming language? | vivekprakash | 4 | 0 |
| 2012-04-29 | Hello world in every programming languageFirst breakout | QuarkSpark | 85 | 57 |
| 2015-07-03 | Hello world in every programming language | epenn | 2 | 0 |
| 2016-05-20 | Hello world in every programming languageBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | afshinmeh | 104 | 69 |
| 2020-05-12 | Hello World in Every Language | rickdeveloper | 2 | 1 |
| 2020-10-24 | Hello World in every computer language | justinzollars | 2 | 0 |
| 2022-11-18 | Hello world in every computer language | mooreds | 1 | 0 |
