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 reminds me of a Steve Jobs quote "it doesn't make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do." Any company that doesn't have this as part of its culture will feel very depressing to creative people.
A lot of start-ups in my experience see all their engineers as “high-autonomy feature implementors.” It’s not really autonomy in the sense of power or choice, though, just being left alone to implement features. The thing is, “features” are product-level things that require technical design as well as implementation. Product design and implementation and technical design and implementation are all different things. Even within programming, implementation has sub-problems that require creativity. I implemented a…
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
- 370
- Total comments
- 77
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-04-21 | Implementers, Solvers, and FindersFirst breakout · Best thread | RKoutnik | 205 | 62 |
| 2023-04-16 | Implementers, Solvers, and Finders (2016) | BerislavLopac | 1 | 0 |
| 2023-04-17 | Implementers, Solvers, and FindersLatest 20+ point return | kiyanwang | 164 | 15 |