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 orderHonestly, this sentiment and most of the comments here are nerd-sniping and oneupmanship masquerading as wisdom. Obviously very few people, possibly none, know 100% of all possible knowledge (how various compilers work, all possible UB, gotchas of stdlib, patterns to use to avoid bad things) to be known about C++. Congratulations to you if you are able to find an example of something someone who “knows C++” does not know. But nobody claiming to know C++ is claiming to know…
One funny consequence of this effect is that at 20 I listed like 15 programming languages on my resume; at 26 I listed 3.
I have been programming in C++ for decades and I am humbled every time I read Scott Meyers "Effective Modern C++". I still can't figure out when an r-value is different than a universal reference. I don't think really anybody is a C++ guru anymore. If someone says they know Modern C++ I am almost sure they don't.
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
- 265
- Total comments
- 317
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010-03-29 | Never trust a programmer who says he knows C++First breakout | skorks | 87 | 92 |
| 2021-11-21 | Never trust a programmer who says they know C++ | thricegr8 | 3 | 1 |
| 2023-06-03 | Never trust a programmer who says they know C++ | thunderbong | 1 | 0 |
| 2023-06-05 | Never trust a programmer who says they know C++Best thread · Latest 20+ point return | sh_tomer | 174 | 224 |