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 met my wife because she was stuck in VI. I was a unix sysadmin in the early 90s, and she was a grad student. She came to me for help (like most of the 1st years did) because she couldn't get out of vi. However, to be fair, this was not her fault per-say. She actually knew how to use vi, but just couldn't find the ESC key. Does anybody remember the DEC keyboards where there was no traditional…
Whenever I end up on another computer without my environment setup and end up in nano because it is the default, it always takes me a while. There is the cheat sheet at the bottom but as soon as the text appears I'll start manipulating it using vim keybindings and delete things and whatever else randomly. I always assume my fingers were not on the homerow correctly or something first. It is very disorienting. So I imagine it is far…
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
- 927
- Total comments
- 607
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-05-23 | Helping a Million Developers Exit VimFirst breakout · Best thread | var_explained | 775 | 473 |
| 2019-02-03 | Stack Overflow: Helping One Million Developers Exit Vim (2017)Latest 20+ point return | ktr | 149 | 134 |
| 2021-07-13 | Stack Overflow: Helping One Million Developers Exit Vim (2017) | tosh | 1 | 0 |
| 2022-11-27 | Stack Overflow: Helping One Million Developers Exit Vim | orhanerday | 2 | 0 |