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Resurfaced independently across 3 calendar years, with breakout response in 3 of them.

submissions
6
submitters
4
observed span
2010–2012
peak thread · 51 comments
267 pts
latest 20+ return · 2012-08-29
212 pts

Submission timeline

2007–2026

One 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

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Glad to see that I'm not the only one who likes the normalize.css technique.

trebor·267-point thread·

Let's have a moment's silence for our dear departed friend, #fe57a1.

Working on a similar analog to the .htaccess for nginx. Anyone with input/interest please fork and update as appropriate. Obviously we can't get 100% functional parity, but we can get close! http://gist.github.com/518000

You guys should def take a look at the recently added Build Script.. it's Ant-based and does all the common tasks you're supposed to be doing: concat&minify css&js, optimizes jpgs & pngs, basic to agressive html minification, filename revving (to pair with heavy expires caching), and removal of development only code (console.log, profiling, test suite). https://github.com/paulirish/html5-boilerplate/wiki/Build-sc... It's still a work in progress but combine this with the provided apache/nginx/lighttpd config and…

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

100+ points or 50+ comments

Total points
875

reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking

Total comments
136

reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking

Every submission

DateTitle as submittedByPointsComments
2010-08-10HTML5 Boilerplate: a rock-solid defaultFirst breakoutmcantelon17823
2010-11-09HTML5 boilerplateepo9714
2011-03-21HTML5 Boilerplate - A rock-solid default template for HTML5paulirish6919
2011-08-10HTML5 Boilerplate v2.0 releasedBest threadnecolas26728
2012-02-06HTML5 Boilerplate 3.0necolas521
2012-08-29HTML5 Boilerplate v4.0.0Latest 20+ point returnnecolas21251