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 orderHave you ever heard that old phrase "you can either make a program so simple it obviously has no bugs, or you can make a program so complex that it has no obvious bugs"? GNU programs are the latter. That's why they need to go to such lengths to test "cat".
> Current performance and test counts on a 40 core system are: $ time make -j $(nproc) check SUBDIRS=. 13s $ # time make -j $(nproc) check RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes 1m22.244s for 9 extra expensive tests That's pretty respectable, given that coreutils include 98 programs (some are simple like yes(1) and true(1), but most of them are used millions of times a day to do real work: ls(1), kill(1), cat(1), wc(1). In fact, I used wc(1) to count the number of separate…
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
- 213
- Total comments
- 24
100+ points or 50+ comments
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-01-23 | How the GNU coreutils are tested | pixelbeat | 6 | 0 |
| 2018-09-20 | How the GNU coreutils are tested (2017)First breakout · Best thread | njn | 107 | 9 |
| 2024-02-21 | How the GNU coreutils are tested (2017)Latest 20+ point return | PaulHoule | 100 | 15 |