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 orderBootstrap is working on a high school physics curriculum for ninth graders, which integrates functional programming as a fundamental component. They only have a landing page up at the moment [0], but I attended a very cool workshop they gave this summer. They’ve designed the programming language to avoid any “incidental complexity”—Physics teachers only have to teach the CS that’s absolutely necessary for the physics education goals they’re trying to achieve. [0]…
If you're into physics I'd recommend solving some problems using whatever language, but especially functional languages (i.e. Lisps, Haskell, etc.) because you have some big "A-ha!" moments as to what the math really means. Like when you program an integral from scratch for a mechanics problem and you go "Oh that's why we use an integral here!" There are also many problems (i.e. n-body orbital dynamics) where brute-force computation is the only way to get to a solution. Finding the…
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
- 712
- Total comments
- 135
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-02-05 | Learn Physics by Programming in Haskell [pdf]First breakout | lelf | 240 | 55 |
| 2015-02-05 | Learn Physics by Programming in Haskell | psibi | 2 | 0 |
| 2016-10-12 | Learn Physics by Programming in Haskell | frostirosti | 2 | 0 |
| 2018-02-24 | Learn Physics by Programming in HaskellBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | jxub | 468 | 80 |