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've done quite a bit of programming with the OpenSSL library and this article is only scratching the surface of the awfulness. Documentation is horrible to non-existent, you really do need to go spelunking into the source to figure out how things work, and the code really is that horrible. The worst thing is that error reporting is not consistent - sometimes -1 means error, other times 0 means error, other times 0 means success, and sometimes it's a combination…
I have had this experience many times when I tried to use a library where every function was tailored for a very specific concrete situation. The perfect example here is finding an extremely complicated mass of code to read a cert from a file, but no way to read a cert from any other source, not even from a buffer in memory. So if you read it from some other location, or read it from a file yourself, or constructed…
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
- 331
- Total comments
- 237
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010-09-10 | OpenSSL is written by monkeysFirst breakout | dfox | 115 | 57 |
| 2013-09-07 | [2009] OpenSSL is written by monkeys | cramforce | 2 | 0 |
| 2014-04-08 | OpenSSL is written by monkeys (2009)Best thread · Latest 20+ point return | dptee | 212 | 180 |
| 2020-04-09 | OpenSSL Is Written by Monkeys (2009) | mmm_grayons | 2 | 0 |