PaperBack – How to store data on a single A4/Letter sheet
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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 orderExample of PaperBack's output: https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/574/7105/8d/www.extremetech.com/...
Does anyone have a PDF of the source code? (Edit: well, good luck, folks: http://web.mit.edu/~mherdeg/www/paperbak.pdf)
I've long wondered what the real-world impact would be of a Carrington Event [0] in the 21st century. If we're underprepared for "black swan" pandemic events, I suspect we're even more so for solar flare / solar storm events, given that unlike the long history of pandemics, we have no historical precedent for severe solar storms since the dawn of electronic technology. I'm almost entirely ignorant on this subject; but my fuzzy understanding is that the only data formats which…
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
- 475
- Total comments
- 209
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-08-13 | Back up your precious files on ordinary paperFirst breakout | adulau | 193 | 91 |
| 2015-09-19 | PaperBack – How to store data on a single A4/Letter sheetBest thread | jguegant | 255 | 114 |
| 2016-04-14 | PAPERBACK v1.10 | manaskarekar | 2 | 0 |
| 2020-04-02 | PaperBack (2007)Latest 20+ point return | polm23 | 23 | 4 |
| 2024-05-31 | PaperBackHall induction | 1970-01-01 | 2 | 0 |