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 orderThis is awesome. I will take [a single huge list of self-explanatory example snippets (with a few short comments here and there) for 95% of use cases] over [detailed walls-of-text docs pages spread across a hierarchy of topics] any day.
Lua is a funky little language and runtime but it is absolutely perfect for scripting in the domain that it was designed for: embedded. I used to do a lot of game dev and it was incredible for testing different interactions/movements etc at runtime just to get all the inputs right and then implement in the game code. It has saved me probably 1,000s of man-hours in my career. Nowadays I use it in NGINX for high-velocity requests that are…
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
- 584
- Total comments
- 195
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-06-24 | Learn Lua in 15 MinutesFirst breakout · Best thread | tylerneylon | 357 | 94 |
| 2020-06-30 | Learn Lua in 15 Minutes (2013)Latest 20+ point return | jakogut | 226 | 101 |
| 2021-11-08 | Learn Lua in 15 Minutes | damir | 1 | 0 |