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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.
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HN comment orderCombine this with the recent surge of sticky footers as well, especially on small/mobile devices. Vice is a particularly bad offender: http://i.imgur.com/ltqYRX9.png That's a 60px sticky header + a 50px sticky footer on a 480px-tall screen. 23% of my screen space is lost to sticky elements. The footer is only two buttons, "Share" and "Tweet". Every time you scroll down, the header slides up, and then back down again. It's an incredibly distracting experience. The icing on the cake is…
Bookmarklet aficionado and maintainer of bookmarkl.ink here. Took the liberty of posting this bookmarklet: https://bookmarkl.ink/ashtonmeuser/849a972686e1505093c6d4fc5...
Sticky headers make me feel claustrophobic, I don't know why. Regardless of my screen height (it could be a 30" monitor), it feels like something is "stuck" to my browser that wasn't before and makes me feel anxious. Even without that feeling, sticky headers kill the feeling that I'm moving through a viewport of a webpage. It makes your website look like it's not of the "webpage" medium that I've been familiar with for 20 years. Humans have a very…
This is useful. If you change the line: elements[i].parentNode.removeChild(elements[i]); to: elements[i].style.position='absolute'; it will unstick the header without deleting it.
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
- Total points
- 701
- Total comments
- 296
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-04-06 | Kill sticky headers | bearbin | 2 | 0 |
| 2017-02-01 | Kill sticky headers | ingve | 3 | 0 |
| 2017-06-27 | Kill sticky headers (2013)First breakout · Best thread | okket | 267 | 116 |
| 2019-02-28 | Kill Sticky Bookmarklet (2013) | dreamcompiler | 1 | 0 |
| 2019-06-06 | Kill Sticky Headers | okket | 2 | 1 |
| 2019-06-27 | Kill Sticky Headers | coryfklein | 2 | 1 |
| 2019-08-21 | Kill Sticky Headers | striking | 2 | 2 |
| 2019-12-04 | Kill Sticky Headers (2013)Hall induction | pcr910303 | 176 | 81 |
| 2021-08-10 | Kill Sticky Headers | sandebert | 22 | 7 |
| 2025-02-01 | A bookmarklet to kill sticky headers (2013)Latest 20+ point return | clockworksoul | 219 | 88 |
| 2026-06-05 | Kill Sticky Headers (2013) | downbad_ | 5 | 0 |