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 orderDSSS [1] is really interesting and worth reading up on if you’re already familiar with LFSRs. To summarize, you start by generating a deterministic, pseudorandom, periodic sequence. You then take your message and modulate (bitwise XOR) each bit of the message by the entire sequence e.g. if my sequence is 31 bits long, then my message modulated is now 31x long. The receiver just correlates the received message by the pseudorandom sequence. The correlation gives me what each bit is…
The first time I read this write-up I found it to be such a great resource because of the range of topics it touches on, with each one an entry point to some new subfield I didn't know about (coming from a non-EE background). DSSS? Time to go on a wikipedia dive into modulation schemes Numerically-controlled oscillators? There's something I haven't encountered, and let's read about FPGAs while we're at it. 1-bit ADC? Crazy that that even works, but it…
If anyone is interested in GPS, we're looking for a software engineer ready to learn about it. (Full Time, Austin)
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
- 3
- Total points
- 462
- Total comments
- 100
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-05-01 | Homemade GPS ReceiverFirst breakout | sly010 | 106 | 55 |
| 2017-03-15 | Homemade GPS Receiver | kruse-tim | 4 | 0 |
| 2017-12-31 | Homemade GPS Receiver [2013] | brian-armstrong | 2 | 0 |
| 2018-06-25 | Homemade GPS Receiver (2013)Best thread | brian-armstrong | 184 | 33 |
| 2019-12-21 | Homemade GPS Receiver (2011) | brian-armstrong | 4 | 0 |
| 2019-12-25 | Homemade GPS Receiver (2011) | brian-armstrong | 3 | 0 |
| 2019-12-27 | Homemade GPS Receiver (2011)Latest 20+ point return | brian-armstrong | 153 | 11 |
| 2023-09-05 | Homemade GPS Receiver (2014) | Tomte | 3 | 0 |
| 2026-03-05 | Home Made GPS Receiver | jacquesm | 3 | 1 |