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 orderPangloss, who was as inquisitive as he was argumentative, asked the old man what the name of the strangled Mufti was. ‘I don’t know,’ answered the worthy man, ‘and I have never known the name of any Mufti, nor of any Vizier. I have no idea what you’re talking about; my general view is that people who meddle with politics usually meet a miserable end, and indeed they deserve to. I never bother with what is going on in Constantinople…
I recommend trying out real gardening, akin to what the author's girlfriend was doing. (Also, she sounds like a cool person! As does the author.) The parallels between virtual gardening and physical gardening became a lot more viscerally true for me once I experienced physical gardening. Here's my mini-story. SF has a bunch of community gardens but the waitlist for getting your own plot is comically long. 2-3 years. However, the community garden near me has a bunch of apple…
I think this is a healthy way to approach side hustles, but may not scale well to full projects.
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
- 984
- Total comments
- 193
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-12-01 | My product is my garden | HermanMartinus | 4 | 1 |
| 2021-02-03 | My product is my gardenFirst breakout · Best thread | square_usual | 731 | 147 |
| 2023-04-29 | My product is my garden (2020)Latest 20+ point return | codazoda | 246 | 45 |
| 2025-09-02 | My product is my garden | ezekg | 3 | 0 |