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 orderI can swear something like 20+ years ago I found a new one too, but I didn’t realize the importance of it. I had just downloaded GIMPS and I was just messing around with it, and when I saw the message I thought “ok, cool!” and proceeded to turn it off.
I think one of the biggest mysteries (in my mind anyway), is how Mersenne found his original list of primes. Yes, some were shown to be incorrect and some he missed...but him finding the amount that he did still seems amazing to me, and I don't believe this has ever been explained. It seems to me like he had a private method for calculating primes (that was imperfect, sure, but also astounding for being developed in the 17th century). To…
Probably known better as a CPU stress test in the overclocking world - the famous Prime95. People run it for x hours straight to prove system stability. Linux overclockers can get in on the fun too. On Gentoo it's installed with "emerge gimps" and the stress test is launched with "/opt/gimps/mprime -t".
Discussion from yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10931234
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
- 575
- Total comments
- 242
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-04-11 | Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search | brudgers | 27 | 3 |
| 2016-01-20 | Largest Known Prime, 49th Known Mersenne Prime Found | taylorbuley | 9 | 2 |
| 2021-10-10 | M(57885161) verified as 48th Mersenne PrimeFirst breakout | mattashii | 163 | 116 |
| 2023-03-16 | Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search | lagniappe | 3 | 0 |
| 2023-07-07 | Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search | RyanShook | 2 | 0 |
| 2023-11-14 | Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search | bebop404 | 1 | 0 |
| 2024-10-14 | New Mersenne Prime discovered (probably) | gpcr1949 | 2 | 1 |
| 2024-10-16 | New Mersenne Prime discovered (probably)Hall induction · Best thread · Latest 20+ point return | sdsykes | 368 | 120 |