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Resurfaced independently across 4 calendar years, with breakout response in 2 of them.

submissions
6
submitters
6
observed span
2015–2020
peak thread · 280 comments
278 pts
latest 20+ return · 2020-10-05
278 pts

Submission timeline

2007–2026

One 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 order

I spent some time learning dotnet core this year and with the slow-grind progress Microsoft has made it really does look like the technology stack might start to replace Java, Go, Rails, NodeJS, over the next decade. You can really feel Microsoft's experience in language development and enterprise software development coming together to provide better ecosystem ergonomics than other frameworks and toolchains. Specifically I'm talking about tools like LINQ, dotnet core libraries, VS and VS Code integration, and the…

tmpz22·278-point thread·

"actors are called ‘grains’," If you can write a sentence "X are called Y", and X is more well-known, drop Y. "You can then send messages to the grain by creating a proxy object, and calling the methods: var grain = GrainClient.GrainFactory.GetGrain<IMyGrain>("grain1"); await grain.SayHello("World");" var brain = BrainClient.BrainFactory.GetBrain<IMyBrain>("brain1"); await brain.Say("WTF");

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

100+ points or 50+ comments

Total points
461

reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking

Total comments
345

reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking

Every submission

DateTitle as submittedByPointsComments
2015-04-30Microsoft Project Orleans - distributed actor frameworkdeegles10
2016-06-09Microsoft Orleansjsingleton10
2016-07-16Microsoft Orleans – An approach to building distributed applications in .NETFirst breakouthitr17565
2017-12-01Project Orleans - Building distributed, high-scale applications in .NETNicoJuicy30
2017-12-11Orleans – For Building distributed,high-scale applications in .NETiamd3vil30
2020-10-05.NET OrleansHall induction · Best thread · Latest 20+ point returnswyx278280