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 orderI tried LYAH before I had any real functional experience, and it went poorly. I think I wasn't dedicated enough. I took a programming languages class taught in Racket, and by the end of that semester I felt like I had finally "gotten" what functional programming was all about. Tried LYAH again and... it still didn't quite stick. Not sure why. But I was determined, because I'd heard about Haskell so much on the internet. So I took a follow-up…
I think the current 'definitive' resource for learning Haskell is https://github.com/bitemyapp/learnhaskell, which has well-curated, comprehensive links.
It's astonishing to me that a computer science student wrote such a good book. It's funny, witty, the drawings are great, and the author explains quite complicated concepts of functional programming very clearly. I've already read this book a year ago online, yet I'm still gonna buy it just to support the author.
I like the material that's been posted so far, but the true test will be how he tries to handle a head-on discussion of Monads. I've been checking up on it every so often since it was first released, and I just noticed he has a (crappy) feed now.
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
- 820
- Total comments
- 365
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008-10-17 | Learn You a Haskell for Great Good | mqt | 59 | 11 |
| 2009-03-27 | Learn you a Haskell for great good | christofd | 61 | 24 |
| 2011-03-29 | Learn You a Haskell is now in printFirst breakout | teaspoon | 186 | 65 |
| 2015-02-19 | Learn You a Haskell for Great Good (2008) | kmooney | 189 | 120 |
| 2017-01-18 | Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!Hall induction | uber1geek | 3 | 0 |
| 2018-08-21 | Learn You a Haskell for Great GoodBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | tosh | 322 | 145 |