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 orderI worked at CCP when they hired Eyjólfur. He came in without really knowing a lot about the game world and made it his first job to learn as much as he could about how the world actually worked. Given that I was a foreigner who was working and living in Iceland, I didn't have much of an evening social life. I was also one of the relatively few employees (sadly) that were really active in the game in the…
Currently the Finance Minister of Greece. It was in the news that he (or possibly the prime minister) said that they are planning to employ an "unorthodox" strategy that "have never been tried before" to pull the country from the mess it is in. One one hand it's interesting to see what comes out of it, but on the other it sounds quite a bit like gambling. Except this time it's with the real economy.
Three years ago and five months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4114295, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9030564.
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
- 1056
- Total comments
- 186
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-06-15 | It all began with a strange emailFirst breakout · Best thread | julioc | 874 | 124 |
| 2015-02-10 | It all began with a strange email (2012)Latest 20+ point return | siddg | 181 | 61 |
| 2015-07-06 | It all began with a strange email (2012) | JoshTriplett | 1 | 1 |