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 orderThis blog post seems to blame GC heavily, but if you look back at their earlier blog post [0], it seems to be more shortcomings in either how they're using Cassandra or how Cassandra handles heavy deletes, or some combination: "It was at that moment that it became obvious they deleted millions of messages using our API, leaving only 1 message in the channel. If you have been paying attention you might remember how Cassandra handles deletes using tombstones (mentioned…
Solid article. Is it fair to say that the "data services" layer is essentially a cache sitting in front of the database, or am I misunderstanding it's function?
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
- 550
- Total comments
- 244
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-03-06 | How Discord Stores Trillions of MessagesFirst breakout | phineyes | 111 | 10 |
| 2024-09-28 | How Discord stores trillions of messages (2023)Best thread · Latest 20+ point return | jakey_bakey | 435 | 234 |
| 2026-03-15 | How Discord Stores Trillions of Messages | thunderbong | 4 | 0 |