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 remember a Rich Hickey talk where he described Datomic, his database. He said "the problem with a database is that it's over there." By modeling data with immutable "facts" (a la Prolog), much of the database logic can be moved closer to the application. In his case, with Clojure's data structures. Maybe the the problem with CI is that it's over there. As soon as it stops being something that I could set up and run quickly on my…
I think that modern CI is actually too simple. They all boil down to "get me a Linux box and run a shell script". You can do anything with that, and there are a million different ways to do everything you could possibly want. But, it's easy to implement, and every feature request can be answered with "oh, well just apt-get install foobarbaz3 and run quuxblob to do that." A "too complex" system, would deeply integrate with every part of…
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
- 427
- Total comments
- 379
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-04-07 | Modern CI Is Too Complex and Misdirected | indygreg2 | 1 | 0 |
| 2021-04-07 | Modern CI is too complex and misdirectedFirst breakout | zdw | 208 | 178 |
| 2023-01-25 | Modern CI Is Too Complex and Misdirected (2021) | xrayarx | 2 | 0 |
| 2025-01-21 | Modern CI is too complex and misdirected (2021) | sam_bristow | 4 | 0 |
| 2025-08-20 | Modern CI is too complex and misdirected (2021)Hall induction · Best thread · Latest 20+ point return | thundergolfer | 212 | 201 |