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 orderAmit's blogs get posted quite a bit, but they're a pleasure to go through every time. My favorites are his posts about noise and map/terrain generation with noise - https://www.redblobgames.com/articles/noise/introduction.htm... https://www.redblobgames.com/maps/terrain-from-noise/
(author here) I wrote most of these notes in 1997 while working on a game. Little did I realize that it'd be one of my most popular web pages. The diagrams are colorful but I don't like them (http://simblob.blogspot.com/2013/12/diagrams-on-my-pathfindi...) so I'm now making new interactive diagrams, starting with breadth first search (http://www.redblobgames.com/pathfinding/tower-defense/). While writing that page, I realized that I need to explain graphs (http://www.redblobgames.com/pathfinding/grids/graphs.html)…
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
- 637
- Total comments
- 87
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011-09-30 | Introduction to A* (pathfinding) | llambda | 1 | 0 |
| 2013-04-22 | Amit's introduction to A* | bcjordan | 1 | 0 |
| 2014-04-15 | Introduction to A*First breakout | ghosh | 298 | 56 |
| 2018-08-16 | Introduction to A* (1997)Best thread · Latest 20+ point return | tosh | 337 | 31 |