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 orderExcellent post, thank you! By the way, I've sometimes heard that it was the popularity of emoji that finally made American and Western European coders learn about the particulars of unicode. Is this just a jokingly told anecdote, or did emoji really help?
It's also easier to get away with Rust's decision to say no, strings aren't sequences of code points (which they aren't) if you do all the work to support ASCII on bytes anyway. Rust defines things like is_ascii_hexdigit() on both char (a Unicode scalar) and u8 (a byte) and so if you're writing some low-level code which cares only about bytes you aren't expected to either turn them into a string to find out if the byte you're looking at…
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
- 234
- Total comments
- 148
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-01-15 | Let’s Stop Ascribing Meaning to Code PointsFirst breakout · Best thread | geofft | 132 | 55 |
| 2022-01-26 | Let's Stop Ascribing Meaning to Code Points (2017) | sundarurfriend | 1 | 0 |
| 2022-06-24 | Let's stop ascribing meaning to code points (2017)Latest 20+ point return | tosh | 101 | 93 |