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 orderWebsite width isn’t calculated correctly for mobile and you need to scroll left and right in order to read the text. I was doing that right after reading > i have very high and unusual standards, Which was kind of funny TBH :)
I think it’s perfectly fine to do whatever you want because it’s fun, but some of the other justification for accepting and rejecting dependencies seems a bit weird. For example, one of your reasons for rejecting Hugo is that you can’t read all the code including dependencies and future updates yourself. However, you have no problems with using Go, which has a pretty large standard library and a lot of code for its implementation. Have you read through all of…
I wrote a Go program to generate my blog (which is just a static site hosted on Github pages). I made it so that I could write blog posts with a "widget builder" DSL, which is a good compromise for me between customizabiity for individual pages vs being able to write 95% of everything with markdown. Example of DSL: https://github.com/liampulles/liampulles.github.io/blob/mast... Blog post with more info, and my site: https://liampulles.com/moving-blog.html
mine: https://ytp.me/ ("empty" backwards) your approach excites me very much and i want to try it for myself !! thank you :))
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
- 505
- Total comments
- 281
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-04-06 | My website is one binaryFirst breakout | j3s | 197 | 67 |
| 2023-10-21 | My website is one binaryBest thread | greenSunglass | 249 | 168 |
| 2025-06-22 | My website is one binary | vishnumohandas | 3 | 1 |
| 2025-07-25 | My website is one binary (2022)Latest 20+ point return | smartmic | 56 | 45 |
