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 orderWhen I first entered the working world as a programmer and administrator of an "academic computing center", in the early 70s, you met men like Ray - ex-military, GI-bill educated, learned computers from the electricity on up in their mid-career, rather frequently, either as customer engineers for one of the big mainframe manufacturers (there were 7 or 8, depending on when and how you counted), or from the minicomputer upstarts who were then assaulting the mainframe world of computing with…
Wow, I wish I was an engineer in that era. 25 years at the same company, 3 languages over 13 years. And when he needed to learn a new language he actually went to school for it. I just started a new position, I have to learn at least 2 new languages (on my own time) which I need to be proficient in basically immediately. My very first project was, fix something in this new project which uses a new…
These two prior submissions generated a lot of interest: 2022, 1482 points, 593 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33330864 2018, 814 points, 403 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17787275
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
- 2299
- Total comments
- 982
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-08-18 | My dad’s resume and skills from 1980First breakout | ilaksh | 814 | 397 |
| 2022-10-25 | My dad's resume and skills from 1980Best thread · Latest 20+ point return | metadat | 1482 | 583 |
| 2025-04-16 | My dad's resume and skills from 1980 | carlos-menezes | 3 | 2 |