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 order> What does it mean for a system to be distributed? There are two aspects: > 1. They run on multiple servers. The number of servers in a cluster can vary from as few as three servers to a few thousand servers. > 2. They manage data. So these are inherently 'stateful' systems. It's a pity that they don't get to the crux of distributed systems because it's very well defined and described for ~40 years now. Instead they describe…
> The main reason we can not use system clocks is that system clocks across servers are not guaranteed to be synchronized. Sentences like this will make me never regret to moving my infrastructure to bare-metal. My clocks are synchronized down to several nano-seconds, with leap-second skew and all kinds of shiny things. It literally took a day to set up and a blessing from an ISP in the same datacenter to use their clock sources (GPS + PTP). All…
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
- 557
- Total comments
- 129
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-08-05 | Patterns of Distributed Systems | merqurio | 4 | 0 |
| 2020-08-12 | Patterns of Distributed Systems | Garbage | 1 | 0 |
| 2020-08-13 | Patterns of Distributed Systems | BerislavLopac | 2 | 0 |
| 2021-01-05 | Patterns of Distributed Systems (2020) | BerislavLopac | 2 | 0 |
| 2021-02-10 | Patterns of Distributed Systems (2020)First breakout · Best thread | sbmthakur | 313 | 58 |
| 2023-06-27 | Patterns of Distributed SystemsHall induction · Latest 20+ point return | eclectic29 | 235 | 71 |