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 orderHello, I create lapis. I'm actually on the verge of releasing a new huge update. New features include: * first class lua support * built in support for a lua templating language: https://github.com/leafo/etlua * a new postgres driver written in pure lua, should play nicer with luajit and and be available in more stages of nginx request cycle: https://github.com/leafo/pgmoon * lots of other smaller changes All of this code is in master I just need to write all the documentation…
Hey, I'm Leaf and I made lapis. Thanks for sharing this Although a new version hasn't been deployed in a while it's still heavily used (and developed, but it's been mostly stable for me). My current main thing is https://itch.io, which is powered by lapis. I have a bunch of other sites running on it too: https://streak.club https://sightreading.training and I also made https://luarocks.org itch.io is the largest thing I've ever started, it's currently about 220k lines of MoonScript code. Feel…
Lapis is the framework that itch.io uses. [1] It also uses MoonScript [2] as the programming language which was also written by the creator of itch.io/Lapis. 1. https://leafo.net/posts/introducing_itchio.html 2. https://moonscript.org/
Leafo, this looks great. I was not familiar with your MoonScript language prior to this. Say, since you cite the benchmarks project, would you mind submitting a test case for Lapis? Also, just out of curiosity, what did you use to create the canvas animation?
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
- 552
- Total comments
- 138
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-04-24 | Show HN: Lapis – A web framework for MoonScript and OpenResty | leafo | 75 | 23 |
| 2014-05-14 | Lapis – A Lua, Moonscript Framework built on OpenRestyFirst breakout · Best thread | statenjason | 164 | 46 |
| 2014-10-08 | Lapis – A Web Framework for Lua | gprasanth | 1 | 1 |
| 2019-01-27 | Lapis – A web framework for Lua or Moonscript | galfarragem | 156 | 27 |
| 2020-09-29 | Lapis (a framework for building web applications using MoonScript or Lua) | tosh | 1 | 0 |
| 2024-05-25 | Lapis: A Web Framework for LuaLatest 20+ point return | thunderbong | 155 | 41 |
