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 orderIs anyone teaching "Practice of boring Distributed Systems 101 for dummies on a budget with a tight schedule" ? As in, "we have a PHP monolith used by all of 12 people in the accounting department, and for some reason we've been tasked with making it run on multiple machines ("for redundancy" or something) by next month. The original developpers left to start a Bitcoin scam. Some exec read about the "cloud", but we'll probably get just enough budget to…
Jim Aspnes also teaches a Randomized Algorithms course, with similarly detailed and well organized notes available: http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/aspnes/classes/469/notes.pdf He's a fantastic and engaging lecturer as well. I highly recommend taking a course with him if you have the opportunity.
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
- 318
- Total comments
- 54
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-06-15 | Notes on CPSC 465/565: Theory of Distributed Systems [pdf]First breakout | nhaliday | 117 | 9 |
| 2022-03-29 | Notes on Theory of Distributed Systems [pdf] | htfy96 | 2 | 0 |
| 2022-08-24 | Notes on Theory of Distributed Systems [pdf]Best thread · Latest 20+ point return | htfy96 | 199 | 45 |