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 story was faithfully transposed to *bande dessinée" (European comics) by Martin Veyron in 2016. "Ce qu'il faut de terre à l'homme" won a prize at the Angoulême Festival, and I recommend it very much if you can read French. My only complaint with it is that the handful of Cyrillic texts in the drawings are not made of Russian words but simple transliterations of French words. Among the short novels wrote by Tolstoi, my personal preference is for "Father…
Just because it’s getting mentioned around here a lot lately: Tolstoy was a convert to Georgism (the philosophy backing Land Value Tax). It’s interesting to see a very specific idea suddenly win a person, and see it reflected back in their output. Interesting piece by Tolstoy’s son on how big an influence George was: https://cooperative-individualism.org/tolstoy-ilya_leo-tolst...
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21963188
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
- 389
- Total comments
- 222
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-01-05 | How Much Land Does a Man Need? (1886)First breakout · Best thread | utopian3 | 336 | 166 |
| 2022-02-03 | How Much Land Does a Man Need? | mooreds | 2 | 1 |
| 2023-11-19 | How Much Land Does a Man Need | figure8 | 3 | 0 |
| 2023-12-08 | Tolstoy: How much Land does a man needLatest 20+ point return | AndrewKemendo | 48 | 55 |