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 orderHoly cow, I'm a very casual gamer, I was excited about the game but when it came out I decided I don't want to wait that long and I'll wait until they sort it out. 2 years later it still sucked. So I abandoned it. But.. this... ?! This is unbelievable. I'm certain that many people left this game because of the waiting time. Then there are man-years wasted (in a way different than desired). Parsing JSON?! I thought it…
There’s an implicit story here which I find quite sad that not a single developer at Rockstar in the prior eight years had the autonomy or bandwidth to discover and fix this themselves.
Always a fascinating read when it pops up on HN :) One thing to note - assumption that one might make is that "Rockstar shipped obviously ridiculously suboptimal code; how did this ever get past testing??" However, based on the author's discussion of the code, and the issue being in inefficient parsing of an online store content, it is likely that this not only passed testing, but was sufficiently efficient in production too... upon go-live, when the store content database…
Major prior discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31681515 (2022 - 213 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26296339 (2021 - 703 comments)
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
- 4582
- Total comments
- 1010
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-02-28 | How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%First breakout · Best thread | kuroguro | 3883 | 697 |
| 2022-06-09 | I cut GTA Online loading times (2021) | ddtaylor | 476 | 213 |
| 2023-09-28 | Cutting GTA Online loading times by 70% (2021) | Vagantem | 3 | 1 |
| 2023-12-07 | How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70% | srbhr | 3 | 0 |
| 2024-01-09 | I cut GTA Online loading times by 70% (2021)Hall induction · Latest 20+ point return | colinprince | 215 | 99 |
| 2025-05-06 | How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70% (2021) | yagizdegirmenci | 1 | 0 |
| 2025-11-05 | I cut GTA Online loading times by 70% | xmprt | 1 | 0 |