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 orderAFAICT Origami is still a collection of plugins for Quartz Composer, a graphics tool by Apple that's included with Xcode. Quartz Composer is effectively deprecated: no updates since 2011, not available in iOS, no Retina support. Building new products on it is not a viable long-term solution, so I wonder if Facebook plans to build a replacement. (Incidentally, if someone wants to make a new Quartz Composer work-a-like, I have a bunch of potentially suitable code that I could share…
Given the little commitment I see from Apple regarding Quartz Composer I wonder if this isn't an opportunity to build a new, better Quartz Composer with a stronger focus on UI Design and release it as an app. Actually, given the current state of what's possible in the browser, I suppose most of that should even be possible in a browser so that it runs on all platforms. The things that come to mind that would not work in the…
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
- 354
- Total comments
- 41
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-12-20 | Origami - Design prototyping with Quartz ComposerFirst breakout | vanwilder77 | 154 | 17 |
| 2015-02-24 | Origami – Design PrototypingBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | geekrax | 198 | 24 |
| 2016-06-08 | Origami Studio | hboon | 1 | 0 |
| 2022-03-07 | Origami Studio | graderjs | 1 | 0 |