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 orderSo on the front page they have in the center a graph that shows lisp doing better in practical applications. They are basically using one paper to claim performance/productivity improvements. This comes from this paper from 16 years ago: http://dl.acm.org.sci-hub.io/citation.cfm?doid=355137.355142 That paper has all kinds of issues including self-selected participants and a tiny sample size. We should really do a hackathon "study" mandatory for a specific group of people e.g. coworkers, something like a surprise…
It's a bit inaccurate of them to present the results of a 17-year old paper (published in 2000), as empirical evidence that development time in Scheme is shorter. These days there are plethora of language choices on the JVM, and if I were devloping a multi-platform app today, I would personally choose Kotlin along with the Intel Multi-OS Engine:https://software.intel.com/en-us/multi-os-engine Part of my motivation to prefer Kotlin over Clojure (the most popular LISP on the JVM langauge?) is that I am…
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
- 429
- Total comments
- 109
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-02-28 | LambdaNativeFirst breakout · Best thread | macco | 287 | 73 |
| 2017-06-23 | LambdaNative – Cross-platform mobile apps in SchemeLatest 20+ point return | landakram | 138 | 36 |
| 2020-05-26 | LambdaNative: Build mobile and embedded apps in Scheme | todsacerdoti | 2 | 0 |
| 2024-05-15 | LambdaNative: Cross-platform development environment written in Gambit Scheme | ducktective | 2 | 0 |